2024 Bangkok hotel cyanide poisoning
| 2024 Bangkok hotel cyanide poisoning | |
|---|---|
| Location | Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Date | 16 July 2024 |
Attack type | Poisoning mass murder murder-suicide |
| Weapon | Cyanide |
| Deaths | 6 (Including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Sherine Chong |
| Motive | Financial dispute |
On 16 July 2024, six people of Vietnamese descent, at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, died of cyanide poisoning.
According to Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, two of the dead were US citizens of Vietnamese descent and four were Vietnamese nationals. After preliminary examinations of the scene, Major-General Theeradej Thumsuthee, chief investigator of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, also said that it was assumed that they had been poisoned, and that there were signs that all six drank coffee or tea. However, a preliminary autopsy did not find any injuries.[1]
As of 17 July 2024, it was confirmed by Bangkok officials that all six victims died of cyanide poisoning.[2] The police believed that it was a murder–suicide.[3]
It was later revealed Sherine Chong, one of the US citizens, had poisoned the whole group.[4][5] When the group had ordered food and tea she had refused the attendants offer to brew the tea and said she would do it herself.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "6 found dead in Bangkok hotel; Thai PM orders probe". The Straits Times. 16 July 2024. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ↑ "Bangkok officials confirm cyanide poisoning in mysterious hotel deaths, probe deepens". The Asean Daily. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024. [dead link]
- ↑ Wee, Sui-Lee; Suhartono, Muktita (17 July 2024). "In a Bangkok Hotel Room, Six Bodies and Traces of Cyanide". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ↑ Nguyen, James Morris and Son (17 July 2024). "Evil act of mass murder at Bangkok tea party of death in the heart of the capital shocks Thailand and the World". Thai Examiner. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
- ↑ "Oakland woman eyed as suspect in Thailand cyanide poisoning that left six dead". Los Angeles Times. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
- ↑ Ngamkham, Wassayos (17 July 2024). "Investment dispute ends in hotel cyanide tea party". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
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