Thai Examiner
Burmese migrant workers, two couples murder construction site overseer over notice period dispute
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Key facts
- Meanwhile, up to ฿50,000 vanished as the suspects fled
- Police identify 25-year-old Burmese suspect as CCTV search intensifies for the two married couples
- Yang Zhongshu, 39, arrived at a Lat Krabang building site to pay nearly 60 workers
- His Chinese companion, 49, was beaten and stabbed
- Payday turned deadly in Bangkok when four Burmese workers demanded to quit and clashed with their Chinese boss over unpaid wages
- Worse, up to ฿50,000 disappeared as the four suspects fled
Summary
### Payday turned deadly in Bangkok when four Burmese workers demanded to quit and clashed with their Chinese boss over unpaid wages. He was beaten to death, his friend stabbed and up to ฿50,000 vanished. Police are hunting both married couples.
A Chinese construction boss was beaten to death in Bangkok on Tuesday evening after a furious wage dispute with two Burmese married couples. Yang Zhongshu, 39, arrived at a Lat Krabang building site to pay nearly 60 workers. However, four employees demanded to quit immediately after he criticised their work. When Yang withheld their wages over the required notice period, violence followed. Two Burmese men reportedly battered him with a steel bar, while a knife was also used.
A Chinese construction boss was beaten to death in Bangkok on Tuesday evening after a furious confrontation with four Burmese workers. The two married couples wanted to quit immediately after their employer criticised their work.