Bodies of Vietnamese citizens in Bangkok hotel cyanide poisoning to be repatriated

It has also sent detailed information to domestic authorities and asked for support in the procedures for the import of the bodies, scheduled for July 20 and 21.

Earlier, on Friday morning, Ambassador Pham Viet Hung received Sanan Angubolkul, Chairman of the Thailand-Vietnam Friendship Association, who came to express condolences on the incident.

On July 16, six people, four Vietnamese nationals and two Vietnamese Americans, were found dead in a locked room at Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in Pathum Wan district of Bangkok, Thailand. Medics at the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of Thailand on July 17 confirmed that the six died of cyanide poisoning.

Police identified Vietnamese-American woman Sherine Chong, 56, as the suspected killer. Chong had also killed herself.

The six had had a dispute over debts related to an investment, according to the police, who are still investigating how Chong obtained the cyanide and whether she had accomplices.

General Noppasin Poolsawat, deputy chief of the Bangkok police, told correspondents that the deceased had a dispute over a hospital construction project in Japan.