The police say that the gunman kills 5 people in the Bangkok market before killing himself star-news.press/wp

The police said that one of the gunmen shot five people in a famous new food market in the Thai capital on Monday before killing himself.

Among the victims were the security guards in the Orb Kor market in Catuchak County in Bangkok, according to the police statement. The Erawan Medical Center, which coordinates medical emergency services, also reported that two women were injured.

The market, next to the sprawling Chatuchak Weekend market, carries all kinds of goods and is popular with Thai and foreign tourists.

According to what was reported, a video revolves around the absolute online wearing a pispul hat and pants walking in the market with a backpack tied on his chest and a pistol in his right hand.

Police said they were looking for details about the suspect, including his motives.

General Ketatatrat Vanvit, head of the National Police Force, said that he ordered the city police to quickly conduct its investigations and collect all evidence, including closed circle video footage.

Armed violence is not unusual in Thailand, which has somewhat restricted laws but also a high level of arms ownership.

The last mass shooting accident in Bangkok was in October 2023 when a teenage boy, using a sprayed empty pistol, fired more than one scale at the Paraguce shopping center in the city’s main shopping area, killing three.

One of the worst mass killings in the country in October 2022 occurred in Nonga Boa Lamfua, northeastern, when he used the police sergeant who lost his job and knives to kill 36 people, including twenty young children at the Night Care Center.

In February 2020, a minor Thai army soldier fired 29 people, most of whom were at a mall in the northeastern Nakhun Rachasima city, before the police killed him after a 18 -hour confrontation.