Pattaya –
A woman with a knife allegedly chased after a somtam vendor on Pattaya Beach Road Tuesday night (April 12th), alarming tourists, shop staff, and local residents.
The Pattaya City Police were notified of the incident at 11:30 P.M. on Pattaya Beach Road not far from Walking Street. They and The Pattaya News team arrived at the scene to find Mr. Kowit Kortawat, 40, and Ms. Umaphon Chayapit, 28, both somtam vendors, in a panic.
The suspect, a woman aged around 30, was found walking aimlessly in front of Pattaya Walking Street. The woman was reportedly extremely uncooperative with the police, cursing at them and insulting them, and refusing lawful orders from the police. It took about 20 minutes for the police to take her to the Pattaya Police Station.
Mr. Kowit told police, “The woman argued with us about basically nothing before she took out a knife. She tried to stab me and chased after us. Luckily, we managed to escape. She destroyed some items on our somtam food cart before walking away. We have no idea what was going on and why she was doing that, we had never seen her before.”
The name of the woman was withheld per editorial policy for a psychiatric evaluation, as Pattaya Police later stated on the morning of April 13th, 2022, that the woman appeared to have possible psychiatric issues and her incident was not drug or alcohol-based. She was being transferred to a special hospital for an evaluation as of press time.
TPN notes this is the second public incident of a person threatening others in public with a knife in Pattaya in about a week and a half. Click here for more on the first incident.
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