Six foreign nationals were found dead in a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok on Tuesday, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, with police suspecting they were poisoned.
"There were no signs of a struggle," Srettha told a press conference at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in the upscale Pathum Wan district, where the incident took place.
"We need to conduct an autopsy to see if they had ingested anything," he said, dispelling rumours the deaths were connected to a theft and had involved a shooting.
The prime minister said all six of the deceased were Vietnamese, two of whom had dual US nationality.
The case was reported at 4:30 pm (0930 GMT) after cleaning staff discovered the bodies when they arrived to make up the room on the fifth floor, police said.
Srettha arrived on the scene shortly after. He said it was believed a seventh Vietnamese person could have been involved in the incident.
The chief of Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Bureau Thiti Sangsawang said the guests had failed to check out of the hotel that afternoon.
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