BANGKOK: A famous Thai fortune teller charged with royal defamation has died in military custody, officials said Monday, the second time in weeks a person caught up in a shadowy palace intrigue probe has been found dead while in detention.
Thai authorities said Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known by his soothsayer name “Mor Yong”, died of a blood infection on Saturday evening just hours after he was found unconscious in his cell at a Bangkok army barracks.
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