A Thai soldier remained holed up in a shopping mall late Saturday after gunning down at least 17 people, in an attack on a normally sedate town centre relayed through Facebook posts. The shooting spree in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima began late in the afternoon at an army barracks. "
A Thai soldier remained holed up in a shopping mall late Saturday after gunning down at least 17 people, in an attack on a normally sedate town centre relayed through Facebook posts.
"He stole an army vehicle and drove into the town centre," police Lieutenant-Colonel Mongkol Kuptasiri. "The gunman used a machine gun and shot innocent victims resulting in many injured and dead," spokesman Krissana Pattanacharoen said. The gunman also posted images of himself and wrote several posts on his Facebook page as the attack unfolded including"should I surrender?" and"no one can escape death".
"There were loads of people at the mall today," a 32-year-old from the city said, requesting anonymity.Street lights below the shopping centre were switched off as army and police units sealed off the Terminal 21 mall.
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