A FIGHT between bar girls of one Japanese bar-restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 23 and the owners of another similar establishment nearby led to four of them being stabbed and hospitalised, TV Channel 7 and Thai Rath newspaper said this evening (June 20).
The fight broke out at 1.40 a.m. last night with Thonglor police detaining two female stabbing suspects but when questioned one of them kept mum with their relatives too showing up at the station.
Pol. Col. Ratthanon Ekthitikulphat, superintendent of Thonglor police station, said the two arrested suspects owned a Japanese bar-restaurant in this alley and after shutting shop for the night they took the trash out. They then met four to five bar girls from a neighbouring Japanese bar-restaurant and the two groups, who had problems before, started arguing.
The two bar-restaurant owners, being outnumbered, pulled out kitchen knives and stabbed four bar girls they were fighting with and all of them have been taken to Kluay Nam Thai Hospital for treatment.
Later, reporters spoke to the aunt of one of the injured bar girls, who said her niece and her friend have been working at this Japanese bar-restaurant for many years.
Upon hearing people brawling in the parking lot, she went to have a look and saw that three of her friends were arguing fiercely with the two perpetrators and then started running away with the other two women chasing and stabbing them with their knives.
When they saw her niece, they stabbed her too and kicked her in the chest.
Currently all four are still hospitalised with two seriously injured and unconscious after being stabbed in the stomach.
After interrogation police pressed charges of assault causing serious injury to other people before granting bail of 150,000 baht each, totaling 300,000 baht.
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Owners of a Japanese bar-restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 23 stabbing bar girls from another nearby outlet. Photo: Thai Rath
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