Moments of terror in a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. Before the attacker was caught by the police, 3 people were killed and 7 people were injured in the shooting attack that took place today, October 3, at the famous Siam Paragon shopping mall.
The attacker is 14 years old
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin announced on television that the attacker had been arrested and said, “The police are evacuating the area. The situation has calmed down.” said. The shooter was a 14-year-old Thai boy who was wearing a hat with the United States flag on it, a black T-shirt and camouflage pants at the time of the shooting. He is responsible for some of the famous massacres that took place in American schools. He could fire a 9mm Glock. According to Thai media, he is the son of a university professor at one of the capital’s major universities.
The young gunman admitted to police that he shot because he felt threatened by “something or someone” who would harm him. The dialogue can be clearly heard in a video circulating on social media, taken just after the arrest, in which the boy speaks clearly but still appears shaken. Some photos show police handcuffing him as he lies on the ground.
CCTV footage shows the moment the attacker was arrested.#พารากอน #กราดยิง #SiamParagon pic.twitter.com/mUaZvtuCsh
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Location of shooting
Siam Paragon is one of Bangkok’s main shopping malls, frequented by locals and tourists from all over the world. Today’s shooting comes almost a year after the worst mass murder in the country’s modern history, when a former police officer killed 36 people, mostly children under the age of 15, at a kindergarten in Nong Bua Lam Phu province (northeast). Of five. And again in 2020, 29 people lost their lives in a murder at a shopping mall in Nakhon Ratchasima.
The Southeast Asian country continues to be victimized by shootings almost every week. According to the Swiss research program Small Arms Survey, there were approximately 10 million firearms in Thailand in 2017, and almost half of them, 4 million, were not officially registered.
Source: Today IT

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