BANGKOK: Thai police on Thursday arrested three men accused of selling a gun and ammunition to a 14-year-old suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Bangkok mall.
The teenager has been charged with murder over Tuesday’s attack at the Siam Paragon mall, which police say was carried out with a blank-firing pistol modified to shoot live rounds.Officers in Yala province in Thailand’s deep south arrested a father and son in the early hours of Thursday on suspicion of selling a gun to the boy.
Officers later arrested a third man in Bangkok on suspicion of selling ammunition to the teenager. Police said he does not know the other two suspects.Hundreds of shoppers fled the packed upmarket mall in fear as shots rang out on Tuesday afternoon. Seven people were shot in total, and a woman from China and another from Myanmar were killed.The suspect has been charged with attempted murder, carrying and firing a gun in a public place, and owning an unlicensed firearm.
It came days before the first anniversary of the deadliest massacre in modern Thai history, in which an ex-policeman armed with a gun and knife attacked a nursery in the country’s north, murdering 24 children and 12 adults.
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