A man opened fireplace on a fresh market in Phuket Town, shooting and killing 2 people and injuring 3 others in the hail of bullets. The shooing happened this morning at Phuket City Municipality Fresh Market 1 in Phuket Town on Ranong Road.
Police had been notified around 10:20 am of the capturing and Phuket City Police responded with rescue employees from the Kusoldharm Foundation together with them. When authorities arrived to the scene of the crime, they discovered 5 people who had been hit with gunfire at the entrance of the primary constructing, in entrance of a seafood stall.
The shooter was identified as a forty seven 12 months outdated man from Songkhla who operated one of many seafood stalls proper in the area of the place the capturing occurred. After the shooting, he fled the scene in a black Toyota Fortuner, however later was reported to have phoned the Phuket City Police and announced that he deliberate to surrender, confess to the shooting, and turn himself in. By Inexpensive had not surrendered but.
Though no official motive has been confirmed, police suspect the shooting spree stemmed from a battle between competing seafood stall meals businesses.
When police received to the market, 5 people have been on the ground with bullet wounds. Rescue employees went to work giving first help and rushed the 5 injured individuals to the hospital. But 2 of the people who had been shot had been pronounced useless a short time later, together with the feminine proprietor of the competitor seafood restaurant where the capturing occurred.
The remaining three injured folks – 2 women and one man – are nonetheless being treated at a local hospital..