Chilling CCTV shows tourists’ final moments before being poisoned with ‘tea laced with cyanide’ by American woman in Thai hotel

Haunting CCTV footage shows the last moments of five people’s lives before they were allegedly poisoned with tea spiked with cyanide.

An American-Vietnamese woman is believed to have administered drinks to her five relatives at a luxury hotel in Thailand before they were found dead by a maid.

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Sherine Chong, 56, allegedly killed the two women and three men over a row over debts of more than £200,000.

She then took her own life by also drinking the poisoned tea, Khaoso reports.

A hotel employee made the grim discovery on Tuesday in a room that was locked from the inside.

Now CCTV footage shows some of the five victims arriving at the hotel, towing their bags as they headed to their room.

The clip, shared in Vietnamese media, shows men and women walking through a hotel garden.

Another CCTV image shared in local media purports to show Sherine at the hotel before the murders.

Chilling photos from the crime scene showed a table covered with teacups and thermos flasks, on which officers later found cyanide residue.

Nearby was a selection of untouched room service food that was delivered on Monday afternoon before the tourists were found dead.

There were no other visitors, no one was seen leaving and the door was locked from the inside.

Post-mortem results confirmed that cyanide was present in the victims’ glasses and bodies.

Sherine waited in a fifth-floor hotel room for her alleged victims and ordered tea and food from room service before they arrived.

She allegedly refused an offer from the team to make tea for her, which Bangkok Post reports.

The others arrived around 2pm on Monday and on Tuesday a maid found their bodies in the room.

They were staying at the luxurious Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok.

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The three dead women were identified as Nguyen Thi Phuong, 46, Sherine Chong, 56, and Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan, also 46.

The male victims are Tran Dinh Phu, 37, Dang Hung Van, 55, and Hong Thanh Pham, 49.

Four of the bodies were found in the living room and two in the bedroom.

Two appeared to have reached the door, but collapsed before they could, police revealed.

A seventh person outside the group of victims booked the hotel room where the tragedy unfolded.

After speaking with the police, it was discovered that she is the sister of one of the victims.

But she returned to her home country on July 10 – meaning investigators dropped her from their investigations.

The victims included four Vietnamese citizens and two Vietnamese-Americans.

Suspected killer Chong had a Vietnamese and American passport and had visited Thailand five times.

She allegedly persuaded a couple and two other people in the group to invest in the construction of a hospital in Japan.

Apparently they lost £215,000 on the project.

The group could be meeting to resolve the dispute over their debts.

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said the FBI is going to investigate.

Police said a mass suicide was unlikely because some of them had arranged future parts of the trip, as guides or drivers.

Furthermore, the bodies were in different parts of the hotel room, suggesting that they did not intentionally consume poison and waited together to die.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller offered condolences to the families of those killed.

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