Gunman intimidates at least one tourist in Patong

A gunman has intimidated at least one tourist in Patong in Phuket yesterday. Local CCTV footage and eyewitness statements helped police officers at Patong Police Station track down the gunman, 25 year old Kittipong Chanthawong, nicknamed ‘Bank’.

Bank had allegedly accosted the unnamed tourist on Bangla Road. Bank surrendered to police near a water shop next to a university.

Police confiscated Bank’s gun, bullets and clothes. The tourist who Bank accosted earlier in the day then identified Bank to the investigating police. So far, neither Bank’s motives, nor the charges he might face, have been confirmed. The Phuket News noted that it was not confirmed whether Bank had approached or threatened any other tourists. Bank is originally from the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat.

This news comes after another man threatened tourists with a knife at a shopping centre in…