Boonlua Chatree
Two tourists were injured when a bouncer at a South
Pattaya disco and four other Thai men beat them before firing a handgun
into the air.
Colombian Oscar Delgado, 30, and an unidentified
Russian man were treated for a broken nose, cuts and bruises at Pattaya
Memorial Hospital. Both were extremely drunk and unable to give
statements to officers at the time.
Police who arrived to find the club still open
illegally at 6 a.m. Oct. 31 interviewed numerous witnesses who all
relayed the same story: A club employee got into a dispute with the two
men and, when the shoving started, four other Thais piled on and beat
the two foreign tourists senseless.
The assault only ended, witnesses said, when the
bouncer filed two shots from a pistol in the air and the Thais stopped
kicking the downed men and ran away.
Police pledged to continue their investigation,
although they took no action against the disco for operating past
closing time or for its overzealous “security” guards.
