Love tryst allegedly led to bride-to-be’s murder by fiance


BANGKOK: It was just five days before her wedding when 25-year-old bride-to-be Nontiya Krowjatturat’s body was found on her bed in Chumphon’s Tha Sae district with a shotgun wound to her chest.

Family and friends of Nontiya, a dental official at a community hospital, woke up to face the tragedy on Wednesday morning as they were preparing to attend the wedding ceremony between Nontiya and Ronnachai Panchart, 26, an official with the Provincial Electricity Authority, which was scheduled for Sunday.

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