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5 dead, 2 injured in Bangkok market shooting in Thailand
5 dead, 2 injured in Bangkok market shooting in Thailand

UPI

time3 days ago

  • UPI

5 dead, 2 injured in Bangkok market shooting in Thailand

Armed police officers on guard at Monday's shooting scene at Thailand's Or Tor Kor Market in Chatuchak, Bangkok. At least five people were killed and two injured. Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA July 28 (UPI) -- Five people died on Monday in Thailand after a mass shooting at a popular seafood market in the south Asian country's capital city. The gunman at Or Tor Market in Bangkok died by suicide, Police Lieutenant Siam Boonsom confirmed to multiple news outlets. Four of the victims were security guards and the fifth was a market employee, according to police. Two other market workers were injured. Boonsom said the shooter was a Thai citizen. He allegedly had a dispute prior to the incident with the security guards after the shooter accused a guard of keying his car. He added that the shooting was unrelated to Thailand's diplomatic dispute with neighboring Cambodia. Thailand has one of the highest gun ownership and gun-related homicide rates in the world in a country where even teachers are known to carry their own guns. The deadly shooting at the Chatuchak district market in northern Bangkok hit at a popular tourist spot. It arrived as Thai tourism officials seek to market the nation as a new tourist hub after its overwhelmingly popular gay marriage law took effect in January.

Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting

Saudi Gazette

time3 days ago

  • Saudi Gazette

Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting

BANGKOK — Five people were killed in a mass shooting at a food market in Bangkok on Monday. The suspect in the attack at Or Tor Kor Market died after taking his own life, police in Thailand's capital confirmed. Four of those who were killed were security guards and the fifth victim worked at the market. Two other market sellers were injured, police said. Police Lieutenant Siam Boonsom told local media that the gunman was Thai and he had disputes with the market's security guards before. He also told reporters the shooting incident was unrelated to Thailand's ongoing conflict with Cambodia. The Or Tor Kor market is well known for high quality fresh fruit and ownership rates in Thailand are relatively high for the region and mass shooting incidents are not common, but the country has seen several deadly incidents in recent 2023, a 14-year-old boy killed two people and injured five others in a shooting at a luxury shopping mall in the centre of ex-policeman killed at least 37 people, most of them children, in a gun and knife attack at a childcare centre in in Nong Bua Lamphu province in north-east Thailand in October 2020, a soldier killed 29 people and injured dozens more in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima. — BBC

40 arrested after drug tests in Bangkok bar
40 arrested after drug tests in Bangkok bar

Bangkok Post

time18-07-2025

  • Bangkok Post

40 arrested after drug tests in Bangkok bar

An arrest of a Vietnamese drug dealer at an entertainment venue in Bangkok early Friday led to the further detention of 40 other people, who also tested positive for drugs. The mass arrests were made after police tracked a Vietnamese drug dealer, identified only as Van. He was found to have been selling drugs in Bangkok's Wang Thonglang district, said Pol Lt Gen Siam Boonsom, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau. An arrest warrant was issued for the Vietnamese on Wednesday. Investigators monitored the suspect and followed him to the bar at 2.45am on Friday, where Mr Van was arrested with eight packets of the "happy water" drug, 12 packets of ketamine and five pills of ecstasy. In the raid, police conducted a urine drug test for other customers and staff there. Forty of them tested positive, with more drugs found in their possession. A 9mm gun was seized from one of the detainees. Their nationalities were not known. All suspects were taken into custody for further legal proceedings, Pol Lt Gen Siam said.

40 arrested after drug test in Bangkok bar
40 arrested after drug test in Bangkok bar

Bangkok Post

time18-07-2025

  • Bangkok Post

40 arrested after drug test in Bangkok bar

An arrest of a Vietnamese drug dealer at an entertainment venue in Bangkok early Friday led to the further detention of 40 other people, who also tested positive for drugs. The mass arrests were made after police tracked a Vietnamese drug dealer, identified only as Van. He was found to have been selling drugs in Bangkok's Wang Thonglang district, said Pol Lt Gen Siam Boonsom, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau. An arrest warrant was issued for the Vietnamese on Wednesday. Investigators monitored the suspect and followed him to the bar at 2.45am on Friday, where Mr Van was arrested with eight packets of the "happy water" drug, 12 packets of ketamine and five pills of ecstasy. In the raid, police conducted a urine drug test for other customers and staff there. Forty of them tested positive, with more drugs found in their possession. A 9mm gun was seized from one of the detainees. Their nationalities were not known. All suspects were taken into custody for further legal proceedings, Pol Lt Gen Siam said.

Thai court issues warrants over deadly quake tower collapse
Thai court issues warrants over deadly quake tower collapse

The Star

time15-05-2025

  • The Star

Thai court issues warrants over deadly quake tower collapse

Rescue personnel work at the site of a building that collapsed, following a strong earthquake, in Bangkok, Thailand, March 29, 2025. - Photo: Reuters BANGKOK: A Thai court issued arrest warrants on Thursday (May 15) for 17 people over the collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper that fell in a major earthquake, killing dozens of workers. The 30-storey tower being built to house the State Audit Office was reduced to rubble in seconds when a 7.7-magnitude quake struck neighbouring Myanmar on March 28, killing thousands in Thailand's wartorn neighbour. The tower was the only building in Bangkok to collapse, and the speed and suddenness with which it fell has raised questions about the quality of the construction. "A Thai court today issued arrest warrants against three groups, comprising 17 people, related to the collapse," Police Lieutenant-General Siam Boonsom told AFP. He did not give details of those targeted by the warrants, but Thai media reports said they include staff from Italian-Thai Development (ITD), one of the firms building the tower. Authorities say they have recovered 89 bodies from the rubble of the collapsed tower, with seven people still unaccounted for. The project was a joint venture between ITD -- one of Thailand's biggest construction firms -- and a Chinese conglomerate. Initial tests by Thai safety officials last month on steel rebars -- struts used to reinforce concrete -- recovered from the site found that some of the metal used was substandard. - AFP

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