Land row led to Krabi massacre, says Thai police chief

Bangkok: Police have apprehended a group of seven men for the massacre of eight members of a family in Krabi province in the South last week in a crime that shocked the country.

Thais awoke to the shocking news last Tuesday that eight people, three of them children, were killed en masse in the house of Worayuth Sunglung, a village headman in Ao Luek district. The victims were shot in the head execution-style, police said.