Surakrit Chaimongkol who was suspected of killing an anti-Yingluck Shinawatra government protester earlier this year died at the Correctional Hospital in Bangkok late on Thursday.

Vitaya Suriyawong, director-general of the Department of Corrections, said on Friday that Surakrit had had breathing difficulties in the Bangkok Remand Prison. He was sent to the Correctional Hospital.

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