Gunman dead after tense siege

PHETCHABURI: A man who went on a shooting rampage, killing three people and wounding three others, including a police officer, at a housing estate in Muang district on Wednesday, was killed in a police shoot-out early yesterday, ending a 15-hour standoff.

The man, identified as 29-year-old Anuwat Laemthong, began shooting indiscriminately from a two-storey house at the Krungphet Villa housing estate in tambon Ton Mamuang from about 1.37pm on Wednesday.

About 100 special operations police officers laid siege to the house and tried to convince the gunman to surrender.

At about 7pm, police brought his mother to the house to help get him to surrender. He refused and sporadically continued shooting.

By that time, three men had been killed and three others injured. Two of the dead were identified as Pasit Em-oth, 22, and Rathakorn Thongkaew, 22, both fourth-year…