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Thailand shooting: teenage suspect arrested after two killed at luxury mall  

  • Siam Paragon Thailand’s most famous mall
  • Police identify dead as Chinese, Myanmar citizens
  • Suspect had been receiving psychiatric treatment – police
  • Mall says it evacuated customers, staff safely

BANGKOK, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Thai police arrested a teenage gunman suspected of killing two foreigners and wounding five people on Tuesday in a shooting spree at a luxury Bangkok mall, the latest high-profile gun violence to rock the country in recent years.

Hundreds of people, including children, were seen screaming and racing into the streets after gunshots rang out at the Siam Paragon mall, a major shopping and entertainment venue popular with tourists in Bangkok’s crowded commercial heart.

Police said two women had been killed, from China and Myanmar, and five others wounded.

National police chief Torsak Sukvimol said the suspected shooter was 14 years old and had been receiving psychiatric…

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