BURI RAM: A mentally-disturbed man in Buri Ram’s Ban Dan district sliced off the head of his brother-in-law then walked across the village in a demented state, carrying the top in a plastic bag and laughing. The incident occurred in Tambon Prasaat on the morning of August 2. The sufferer, a 68-year-old farmer named Bun Tharuangrum, was living in the village with his wife Hai Nuphanram, sixty five, and her youthful brother Chuay Nuphanram. The couple’s seven daughters had all married and gone off to stay elsewhere. When police arrived, they found greater than a hundred villagers standing around in unhappiness and shock, wanting at the victim’s headless body. Beside it was the bloody knife that had been used to hold out the murder. One neighbor, 58-year-old Suk Klaharn, informed police that Chuay had appeared at their residence that morning carrying K. Bun’s Restricted in a plastic bag, laughing and asking them what he should do with it. The query was never answered, since K. Suk and his whole family fled screaming in each coursen