Thai man kills two sons and himself

BANGKOK - A man killed two of his sons and aferward he commited sucide after separating from wife in Pathumwan district Bangkok, police inspected a two-storey building in Soi Phra Jen 3 at about 9.30am yesterday, where they found the three bodies in a second-floor bedroom. Natthawat Masri, 30, had a stab wound to the heart, while his sons Pachthanan, 8, and Chotiwit, 7, also had stab wounds to the chest. Police found a long sharp-edge knife covered in blood near the bodies. A note was allegedly written by Natthawat, in which he said he felt very sorry for resorting all this he added, not kill his sons because the family was torn apart but because he would do anything to take them with him so he could be at rest he said. Natthawat's mother Thonyanas 48, said her son and grandchildren had been staying with her sister Suwan Thab-eium, 53 years old, after Natthawat came and picked up the kids from the house of his estranged wife, Papapat Sukjinda, 31, on Friday. Natthawat was to have returned the kids to his wife yesterday evening, Thonyanas said. Natthawat and Papapat reportedly separated about a month ago. Police said Natthawat killed his two sons and took away his own life because he had failed to reunite with his wife.