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Thailand Drug Suspects Run to Ground Days after Daring Escape

Agence France-Presse

   BANGKOK - An American drug suspect and his Thai wife who went on the
   run after they shot and stabbed their way out of a courtroom were
   apprehended Wednesday, authorities said, with the man shooting his wife
   and then himself as police closed in.

   The couple, along with an associate, had made their brazen and violent
   escape from a court holding room in the seedy southern city of Pattaya
   on Monday, wounding a police officer before fleeing in a pick-up truck.

   But on Wednesday they were tracked down in Sa Kaeo province, which
   shares a border with Cambodia, with the American taking his wife
   hostage in the ensuing standoff with police.

   "The foreign suspect shot his wife, and then himself," Sattawat
   Hiranburana, assistant to the national police chief, told AFP, adding
   that the American had sustained "serious" injuries.

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