A Thai soldier accused of killing more than 21 people in a shooting at a crowded shopping mall has been killed, bringing an end to a 12-hour manhunt, officials say
Lieutenant General Thanya Kiatsarn, commander of Thailand's 2nd Army Region, announced the shooter had been killed on Sunday morning.Thai police said that the attacker had been"shot dead" around 9 a.m. local time . The standoff began on Saturday after the shooter started firing first at a military site and then at the Terminal 21 shopping mall in Thailand's northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima province, known as Korat.
Mall evacuee: All of a sudden everyone started running 01:40News footage from the scene showed people leaving the area in pickup trucks and cars as security forces surrounded the mall. Thai authorities said the shooter was believed to be Army Sub. Lt. Jakrapanth Thomma, an ammunition battalion officer working for the 22nd Ammunition Battalion, defense ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Kongcheep Tantravanich said.
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