BANGKOK, Jan 31 — A Thai scholarship student in the US has been shot dead, allegedly by her boyfriend who later committed suicide, said Sek Wannamethee, director-general of Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Information Department, on Saturday.
Mr Sek said he had received a report from the US embassy in Bangkok on Friday that police in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had informed that two persons were found shot dead in an apartment there.
Police initially believed that it was a murder case.
The female victim was a Thai citizen identified as Chalalai Chaihirankarn, 26, who was a Mahidol University scholar.
She was studying computer science for a doctorate degree at Carnegie Mellon University, said Mr Sek.
Her 29-year-old boyfriend was reportedly half Thai and half American.
The murder was believed to have caused by jealousy, he said.
The Office of the Civil Service Commission in Washington had already contacted her relatives, Mahidol University in Bangkok and the Thai consulate in New York so that a death certificate could be issued while her body would be sent back to Thailand, Mr Sek added. (MCOT online news)
