A faculty director was killed and two others, together with a pupil, have been injured after a teen gunman went on a taking pictures rampage at a college in Thailand on Wednesday. In keeping with authorities, the incident concerned an 18-year-old shooter, who was finally arrested.
Police mentioned the gunman fired a number of photographs on the faculty in Songkhla province and took a number of academics and college students hostages, earlier than they have been freed.
Apart from the varsity director, all different hostages have been rescued alive.
A instructor was additionally amongst those that have been damage within the incident, which happened in Hat Yai district of Songkhla.
{A photograph} shared by the police confirmed the second the suspect was captured. He was barefoot and was carrying shorts and a T-shirt as armed officers held him down on the bottom.
Furthermore, a video shared by a witness confirmed armed cops storming the three-story faculty constructing because the sound of gunfire rang out.
In one other, college students may very well be seen working down a flight of stairs on the faculty as police, some carrying helmets and black bullet-proof vests and carrying rifles, shouted: “Go residence youngsters, it is protected.”
India At present Digital couldn’t independently confirm both of the 2 movies.
Native media studies cited by Bangkok Submit counsel that, previous to the hostage scenario, the police responded to a name about an 18-year-old man who was displaying violent behaviour. He was reportedly attempting to hurt his mom.
The studies mentioned that {the teenager} snatched an assault rifle from one of many responding police personnel and subsequently entered the varsity.
Eyewitnesses purportedly mentioned that the person was searching for a instructor who had beforehand disciplined his youthful sister.
Gun violence and possession aren’t unusual in Thailand, the place an ex-police officer killed 36 folks, together with 22 youngsters, in a gun-and-knife assault at a nursery in 2022.
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(With inputs from Reuters)
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