Suspected shooter’s modified gun designed to fire blanks

October 4, 2023

PUBLISHED : 4 Oct 2023 at 10:16

Security officers have temporarily taken control of the area inside Siam Paragon following a shooting incident involving a 14-year-old boy wielding a firearm on Tuesday. (Photo: Nutthawat Wichieanbut)

A teenager suspected of killing two foreign nationals and wounding five others in a Thai shopping mall shooting had modified a handgun that was designed to fire only blanks, a senior police official said on Wednesday.

Chaos erupted at the Siam Paragon mall on Rama 1 Road…