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Gunman kills one person at Bangkok shopping mall days after mass shooting

Published: 18 Feb 2020 - 12:39 pm | Last Updated: 16 Nov 2021 - 04:54 am

Reuters

Bangkok: A gunman killed one person and wounded another at a shopping mall in Bangkok on Tuesday, police said, 10 days after a mass shooting in Thailand's northeast left 29 people dead.

"There was a shooting event at Century Plaza. It was personal issue. One person died and another was injured," police Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen told Reuters.

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