BANGKOK — One person was killed and six wounded in a shooting in a packed Bangkok shopping mall on Tuesday (Oct 3), a Thai medical official said in revising down an earlier toll, with police arresting a 14-year-old suspect.
Hundreds of people fled the upmarket Siam Paragon mall in the heart of the Thai capital as shots rang out around 4.30pm , witnesses told AFP.
Mr Yuthana Srettanan, director of the Erawan Emergency Centre, told reporters that one woman had been killed, correcting his initial report of three deaths. "At around 4.30pm, I heard loud gun noises, continuously, about 10 times," Mr Thanpawasit Singthongkham, 31, who works at a Japanese restaurant in the mall, told AFP.
In another video, shared on Facebook and verified by AFP, scores of people can be seen in the mall's basement car park being directed by loudspeakers. "We didn't know what was happening, then staff from a shop asked us to go inside and said there was a shooter," Chinese tourist Xiong Ying, 41, told AFP.
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