2023 Siam Paragon shooting
2023 mass shooting in Thailand
On 3 October 2023, at 4:10 p.m., a mass shooting occurred at the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. The suspected gunman, a 14-year-old male teenager, was arrested after surrendering to the police. The teen, who attended a school that was near the mall, was armed with a modified blank pistol, which he used to fatally shoot a Burmese worker and a Chinese tourist, and injure five others. A Thai woman succumbed to her wounds on 13 October 2023, becoming the third fatality from this incident.
Background
Gun ownership rates in Thailand are relatively high for Southeast Asia. Estimates put the number of civilian gun owners in the country at more than 10.34 million, while only 6.22 million guns are legally registered. Thailand also has the second-highest number of gun homicides in Southeast Asia. However, indiscriminate mass shootings are rare, though there have been high-profile cases in recent years. In 2020, a soldier killed 29 people in Nakhon Ratchasima, and in 2022, a former policeman killed 36 people in a gun and knife attack at a childcare centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province.
The Siam Paragon Mall is among the best-known shopping centres in Bangkok and is popular with both locals and tourists alike.
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