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Teacher killed, student injured in shooting in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei area

Mother of a student injured in the shooting calls for pollice on November 11 to arrest those who shot her son.

A school teacher was killed and a vocational student seriously injured in a shooting near a school in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei district on Saturday morning.

Khlong Toei police say they suspect that the shooting stemmed from a rivalry between students of two vocational colleges.

Quoting motorcycle taxi drivers, police said that a group of about five vocational students were gathered on the pavement in front of a bank, near a girl’s school on Sunthorn Kosa Road, when the pillion passenger from a motorcycle approached the students and opened fire with a handgun. The bullets hit one of the students and a bystander, later identified as a school teacher.

The gunman, thought to be a student at a rival college, walked back to his accomplice on the bike, but was told to go back…

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