Chilean diplomat's daughter shot dead by cops

Chilean Consul in Venezuela, Fernando Berendique, right front,
 helps to carry the coffin with the remains of his daughter Karen
 to a waiting hearse. (AP)

The 19-year-old daughter of a Chilean diplomat in Venezuela was shot to death by police at a road checkpoint early Saturday.

On-the-run murder suspect shot dead

Somchai "Ae Leuk" Iampaijit, a drug suspect wanted for the death of a woman from whom he stole a motorcycle during a police chase, was killed yesterday in a gunfight with police in Nonthaburi's Bang Bua Thong district.

Somchai, 33, was seen on CCTV footage on Friday apparently running into the street, stopping a Chatuchak Weekend Market vendor who was passing by, shooting her dead and taking off on her motorbike while evading arrest for drug charges.

Soldier shot dead in robbery bid

PETALING JAYA: Police shot dead a soldier and wounded another when they tried to rob an illegal cyber cafe in Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh here yesterday.

The soldiers, who were armed with a Glock semi-automatic pistol and a 'kerambit', had gone into the shop, unaware that there were two policemen posing as customers inside.

Selangor police chief Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said the two men knocked on the cafe's back door before they were let in by its operator about 6.45am.