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Representatives of television stations will be summoned for a meeting with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC), Thailand’s broadcast regulator, for discussions about their live broadcasts of the siege drama in Nakhon Ratchasima. NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tanthasit said today that, during the siege at the Terminal 21 shopping mall, he had ordered all TV
Grudge and weaponry expertise can be a very bad mix, as proven tragically in the case of Sergeant Major Jakrapanth Thomma, the gunman in what is Thailand’s first massive random shooting spree. He had been apparently one of the normal low-ranking soldiers. His background was nothing extraordinary either. He spent his childhood in Chaiyaphum and
Here are the latest developments on the shooting rampage in Nakhon Ratchasima which ended early Sunday morning: The gunman, Sgt-Maj Jakrapanth Thomma, was killed in a shootout with police inside Terminal 21 shopping mall in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima early Sunday morning after more than 12 hours of siege. Officials confirm death toll at 22, including
The dramatic siege at Terminal 21 shopping mall in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima is over after the gunman was killed in a gunfight with police this morning, national police chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda said. He said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha cha and Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan who are their way to the northeastern province
The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak soared to 803 in China on Sunday, according to official figures, overtaking the global toll for SARS. With 81 more people dying in Hubei — the province at the centre of the outbreak — the toll is now higher than the 774 killed worldwide by the Severe
The US Embassy in Thailand has expressed condolences to the victims and families injured and killed in the shootings in and around Terminal 21 shopping mall in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, which began on Saturday night and ended with the gunman’s death early this morning. The statement reads: “The Embassy of the United
27 people, including the gunman, were killed in the shooting rampage which ended at the Terminal 21 shopping mall in Muang district of Nakhon Ratchasima this morning (Sunday), Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told the media in Nakhon Ratchasima today. He said that all 26 fatalities were killed by the gunman, Sgt Maj Jakrapanh Thumma, as
Death toll from the shooting rampage in Nakhon Ratchasima has risen to 22, with 63 people injured as members of a crack police unit continue to try to hunt down the gunman holed up in a downtown shopping mall in the northeastern province. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said among the dead is a member
The Crime Suppression Division reported at 11.40 pm that its commander Pol Maj Gen Jirapob Puridej and members of “Hanumarn” crack police unit have stormed the ground floor of Terminal 21 shopping mall in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima in which a heavily-armed gunman is being holed up after going on a shooting spree that has killed
Elite police and army forces from the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok and Lop Buri-based Special Forces are laying siege to Terminal 21 shopping mall in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima province, where a heavily-armed gunman is believed to be holed up with many shoppers trapped inside. Police reported that at t least 17 people, including the
What we know so far about the mass shooting by army man Sgt-Maj Jakrapanth Thomma who is now being holed up in Terminal 21 shopping mall in Nakhon Ratchasima: Public Health Minister Anutin confirms 20 people have been killed, 31 injured Shooting began when the gunman shot dead his commander and a woman, and injured
Members of police crack unit have stormed Terminal 21 shopping mall in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima province, where a heavily-armed gunman is believed to be holed up with many shoppers trapped inside. Television footage showed hundreds of shoppers, some with young children, frantically leaving the compound. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul reported at around midnight that
A former election commissioner has addressed about why the nine Constitutional Court judges did not read from the bench the full text of their ruling on the legality Government’s budget bill, after proxy voting by MPs was discovered. In his Facebook post today, Mr. Somchai Sirsutthiyakorn said that the charter court judges did not have
A member of the military, attached to a barracks in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, opened fire with an automatic rifle, killing two officers in a village before driving a Humvee around the same village and firing indiscriminately at villagers, killing at least 12 people and wounding many others. The motive for the rampage
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has conveyed his condolences to family members of the victims of the mass shooting by army man who is now being holed up in a major shopping complex in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima in which many shoppers are reported to be trapped. Police have confirmed that 17 people have died and another
An army corporal shot his commander and an elderly woman dead at a house in Muang district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, before escaping in a stolen Humvee and opening fire indiscriminately at people, killing at least 10 and injuring several others, as he drove toward a local shopping mall. The mass shooting
