IN January three people were shot and killed in Bangkok over what the Bangkok Post said was a, “long-standing dispute over parking.” Two women and a male neighbor who had intervened in the argument were killed by Thossaporn Pitakwattananon. In another long-standing feud, according to the Bangkok Post, a gardener shot and killed a colleague at Thammasat University later in February.
Just this last weekend a reportedly “jealous lover” shot and killed his girlfriend in a Bangkok shopping mall, and immediately after the man shot himself in the head. A nine-year-old girl was also hit in the face by a stray bullet over the weekend.
These incidents happened just a few months following reports of Thailand’s high per capita gun murder rate, reportedly higher than that of the U.S. and three times higher than Cambodia’s murder rate.
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Baffling statistics fail to hide Thailand's worrying gun crime problem
Baffling statistics fail to hide Thailand's worrying gun crime problem
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