Fishermen murdered
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) BANGKOK, June 11. ‘ Pirates seized a fishing i trawler, stabbed to death six persons aboard, and threw the bodies and a baby, into the sea. The Bangkok police say that one of the pirates, who was arrested yesterday, has confessed that he and three others stowed away in the trawler last month, while it was berthed at the port of Trad in the Gulf of Thailand. When the trawler was on its way to the fishing grounds, the four pirates seized the vessel, killed all six adults aboard, and threw them, together with a one-year-old baby, into the sea. The arrested man told the police that the pirates later took the trawler to the province of Samut Prakarn, 15 miles south of Bangkok, and sold it for 65,000 baht (about $2000).
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33249, 12 June 1973, Page 18
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135Fishermen murdered Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33249, 12 June 1973, Page 18
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