'I don’t think I’ll be coming back to Bangkok in the next five years,” said Ms Han. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Ms Han fell and suffered minor abrasions on her right leg, after a panicked middle-aged woman pushed her from the back.
“Initially I didn’t react because being from Singapore, we always feel very safe, so I didn’t think much of it,” Ms Han, 25, said over the phone with The Straits Times on Thursday. “But inside the hotel lobby, it was quite scary as well as people were just running around and most people were crying,” said Ms Han, who added that the pair initially thought there might have been a bomb or terrorist attack.
After the situation had calmed slightly at the hotel, Ms Han texted her family and boyfriend to let them know about the shooting. In the next eight hours, she shared her live location with them over Whatsapp and Telegram. Ms Han and Ms Tay left Siam Kempinski after about four hours there, and walked 30 minutes back to their hotel in ponchos under the rain. They did not take a cab as they wanted to avoid traffic congestion and flooded roads.
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