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The victims included security guards at the Or Tor Kor market in
the district of Chatuchak district in Bangkok, according to a
police statement. The Erawan Medical Center, which coordinates
emergency medical services, reported two women were also
wounded.
The market, next to the sprawling Chatuchak weekend Market,
carries all sorts of goods and is popular with Thai and foreign
tourists.
A video circulating online reportedly showed the shooter wearing
a baseball cap and shorts walking in the market with a backpack
strapped to his chest and a handgun in his right hand.
Police said they were probing details about the suspect,
including his motivation.
Police Gen. Kitrat Phanphet, chief of the national police force,
said he has ordered city police to carry out their investigation
quickly and gather all evidence, including closed-circuit video
footage.
Gun violence is not unusual in Thailand, which has fairly
restrictive laws but also a high level of gun ownership.
The last mass shooting incident in Bangkok was in October 2023
when a teenage boy, using a modified blank pistol, shot more
than half a dozen people at the Paragon shopping mall in the
city’s main shopping district, killing three.
One of the country’s worst mass killings occurred in October
2022 in the northeastern province of Nong Bua Lamphua, when a
police sergeant who had lost his job used guns and knives to
kill 36 people, including two dozen toddlers at a day care
center.
In February 2020, a disgruntled Thai army soldier shot and
killed 29 people, most at a shopping mall in the northeastern
city of Nakhon Ratchasima, before he was killed by police after
an 18-hour standoff.
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