Reuters reports that a Thai soldier killed at least 20 people
in a shooting rampage in northeastern Thailand on Saturday, posting
messages on Facebook during the attack, and was holed up in a shopping
mall nine hours after he first struck, authorities said.
Security forces blocked the street leading to the Terminal 21 mall in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Groups of soldiers and police could be seen heading in as rescue
workers waited nearby, nearly 10 hours after the soldier began his
attacks in another part of the city.
Earlier, security forces had stormed the mall and helped hundreds of
people escape, but the gunman was still at large inside, defense
ministry spokesman Kongcheep Tantrawanit told Reuters.
The soldier opened fire in several places, including a house and an
army base, before heading to the mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, which is
about 250 km (155 miles) from the capital Bangkok, police said.
Local media showed footage of the soldier getting out of a car in
front of the mall and firing off a series of shots, sending people
fleeing for cover.
“We don’t know why he did this. It appears he went mad,” Kongcheep said.
One video from a bystander showed a man slumped at the wheel of a car
in a pool of blood. It was unclear if he was among the dead. Another
video showed at least four people who had clearly been shot and showed
no sign of movement.
CCTV footage from inside the mall posted on social media showed the
gunman dressed in black and wearing a mask, his gun slung over his
shoulder with no sign of other people around.
Kongcheep said at least 20 people had been killed and it was not clear whether the gunman had taken hostages in the mall.
It’s not known how many are still inside,” he said.
Police identified the suspect as Jakrapanth Thomma. During the attack
he posted: “Death is inevitable for everyone” on his Facebook page and
later asked “Should I give up?”
‘WHY DID HE DO IT?’
Facebook said it had removed the suspect’s account.
“Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community
affected by this tragedy in Thailand. There is no place on Facebook for
people who commit this kind of atrocity, nor do we allow people to
praise or support this attack,” a Facebook representative said in a
statement.
Thai media said the suspect’s mother was being taken to the mall to
try to persuade him to give up. Video showed her in tears saying “why
did he do it?” as she got in a police vehicle.
Major shootings are rare in the Southeast Asian country other than in the far south, where a decades-old insurgency persists.
A woman told Thailand’s Channel One television she heard gunshots
when she was at the mall and hid in a clothing store with other people
before escaping.
The shooter first went to a house in the city and shot two people
dead before going to an army base, where he took a gun from the weapons
store and fired at people, local police said.
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul asked on his Facebook page for blood donations at four hospitals in the area.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha expressed condolences to the families of those killed, a government spokeswoman said.
Nakhon Ratchasima is one of the biggest cities in northeastern
Thailand, a rice growing area and one of the poorest parts of the
country of 69 million people.
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