Senator ‘accidentally’ kills secretary

August 13, 2012 | 3:26 pm

A senator for Mae Hong Son has told police he accidentally shot and killed his personal secretary with a machine gun in a restaurant in Phrae province, a duty officer at Wang Chin police station said on Monday.

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The shooting occurred at a restaurant in Wang Chin district of the northern province on Sunday night, Pol Lt Choosak Poonsawat said.

Boonsong Kowawisarat, 55, and his personal assistant Chanakarn Detkard, 46, were travelling to Bangkok in the senator’s car and stopped for dinner at a restaurant on a local road in moo 2 in tambon Mae Keng, Phrae.