Thai officers charged with murder after video leak

Thai police arrested four fellow officers on Wednesday after leaked video showed a suspect being suffocated with plastic bags, while in custody at a station in Nakhon Sawan province, north of Bangkok. A national police spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday that seven policemen had been charged with murder and other offences.

Three of the men are believed to be on the run, including a police colonel with the nickname "Jo Ferrari" because of his collection of expensive sports cars, Thai media reported. The incident happened earlier this month when a man and woman were brought to Nakhon Sawan police station on suspicion of drugs trafficking.

In video posted to social media on Tuesday the male suspect is seen being led into a room, his hands cuffed and his head covered with a black plastic bag. He is then assaulted and thrown to the floor by officers who put more bags on his head. One of them appears to briefly kneel on him. The sobbing man, named by media as 24-year-old Jeerapong Thanapat, then goes quiet. Police try in vain to revive him with a jug of water and CPR. The video was posted on Facebook by a lawyer. He said he got it from a policeman at the station.