Thailand will restore confidence in its critical tourism sector, officials said on Wednesday, a day after a shooting spree at a luxury shopping mall in which two foreigners were killed clouded hopes for a recovery in overseas visitors.
Police have arrested a teenager suspected to have entered the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok’s commercial heart on Tuesday and unleashed a volley of gunfire, killing two women, one from China and the other from Myanmar, and wounding five people.
The shooting came as new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is trying to bolster tourism, a key driver of Southeast Asia’s second largest economy that has been slow to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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