A team of police at the Police General Hospital has the unpleasant job of watching and waiting for a Chinese woman to pass a 10-million-baht diamond she allegedly swallowed last Thursday.
Despite doses of laxatives, the jewel remained in her body as of Saturday.Jiang Zulian, 39, allegedly gulped down the precious six-carat gemstone on Thursday morning at a convention being held at Impact Arena in Muang Thong Thani.
The two Chinese nationals are interrogated after being detained at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday night on suspicion of theft of a 10-million-baht diamond from the annual jewellery fair at Impact Muang in Nonthaburi. PONGPAT WONGYALA
In a very unusual ceremony, the two suspects were taken to the jewelry fair in Muang Thong Thai were the stolen diamond was returned to its owner. Weakened from days of little food and water and a medical precedure to remove the diamond, the woman suspect Jiang Zulian seemed barely conscious. PORNPROM STRABHAYA