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Two female Russian tourists were shot dead yesterday while they were relaxing on the beach in the popular Thai seaside town of Pattaya, police said.
Tatiana Tsimfer, 30, and Liubov Svirkova, 25, were found dead in their deckchairs on Jomtien beach, Pattaya, some 150km southeast of Bangkok, they said. A nearby hotel guard told police he heard several gunshots and saw a Thai man speeding away on a motorcycle after the shots. "At the moment, we don't know why they were shot," Major Sretha Maklon of Pattaya police said. The women arrived in Thailand on February 16 as part of a group tour. Pattaya is one of Thailand's popular beach resorts and is also known for its thriving nightlife. Despite its reputation as a holiday paradise, Thailand has seen a series of gruesome murders of tourists in recent years. In Kanchanaburi, 100km west of Bangkok, a 26-year-old female Australian tourist was killed in a drive-by shooting last year. A young British couple were gunned down there in 2004 and a French tourist.
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