Two separate shootings rocked South Thailand yesterday, claiming a total of five victims.
In Surat Thani province, an unidentified gunman shot four people dead at a house, including two former village heads and his wife. The gunman attacked the victims at a house in Khiri Rat Dikhom district.
Police identified three of the victims as former village headman Thammarong Nilniyom, Thammarong’s wife Nilthip, and another former village head named Pornsak Petchu, Thai PBS reported. The fourth victim was not identified.
Police found more than 90 spent shells from automatic weapons scattered around the house where the incident took place.
Police said that Thammarong had been shot and wounded before. The motive of the shooting is currently being investigated.
There was also an attack in South Thailand’s Narrathiwat…