Video: Gun in hand, Bangkok shooter strolls past bodies after market attack
Another video, CCTV footage obtained from a general store, showed customers screaming in fear and running out of the shop as multiple shots could be heard in the background. The shooter was not visible in the 23-second video though.The Thai police is yet to identify the shooter or his motive behind carrying out the attack on civilians. All the victims were security guards at the market, a police statement said.According to police, no tourists were killed or injured in the shooting incident, Sanong Saengmani, a police official in Bangkok's Bang Sue district, said. The market where the incident took place mainly sells agricultural produce.In October 2023, a 14-year-old suspect wielding a modified handgun killed two people and injured five others at a luxury mall in central Bangkok.A year before that, a former cop killed 36 people, including 22 children, in a gun-and-knife attack at a nursery in eastern Thailand.- Ends
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