Thai police are investigating the deaths of six foreign nationals whose bodies were found in a room at an upmarket hotel in Bangkok on Tuesday, including looking for a seventh person in connection with the incident. - REUTERS
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00:00Thai police are investigating the deaths of six foreign nationals, whose bodies were found
00:06in a room in a Hyatt hotel in Bangkok on Tuesday.
00:09They are looking for a seventh person in connection with the incident.
00:13All six were of Vietnamese descent, including two Americans.
00:17Police believe they may have ingested something that killed them, and that they were not the
00:22victims of robbery or assault.
00:25Initially, from the scene inspection, there was no fight, no harm done.
00:29The property, as far as we can see, has not been ransacked.
00:33It is assumed that there was no intention toward the property, and no outsiders entered,
00:38as determined from the fingerprint investigation.
00:40It is possible that it occurred from the inside, possibly a hideout, which indeed originated
00:45from the inside.
00:48The U.S. State Department said Tuesday that it is monitoring the situation.
00:52Whenever a U.S. citizen dies in a foreign country, local authorities are responsible
00:56for determining the cause of death.
00:58Thailand Prime Minister Soita Thaiwasan, who visited the hotel on Tuesday, has ordered
01:03a swift investigation.
01:05His office said he was concerned about the impact on tourism.
01:09It's the key driver for the country's economy.
01:12Last year, 28 million visitors spent nearly $34 billion in Thailand.
01:17The tourism sector was shaken in October by a shooting spree at a luxury shopping mall
01:23close to the Hyatt, in which two foreigners were killed.