WAT PA SATTHARUAM, Thailand (Reuters) – Thai nun Amornrat Putta-ariyawong was washing meals in preparation to host Buddhist enthusiasts on a holy day when a military Humvee pulled up simply inside the temple gates and the motorist started shooting into the roadway.
A buddhist monk sprinkles holy water as individuals wish victims who died in mass shooting, involving a Thai soldier on a shooting rampage, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand February 9,2020 REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
” When the first round of shots was fired, everybody believed it was among those firecrackers going off,” Amornrat, outfitted in white robes, recalled on Sunday.
Instead, a Thai soldier leaving his military base after eliminating a guard and his commanding officer was gunning individuals down in the early stages of an 18- hour shooting spree in which he would eliminate 29 individuals.
” Anyone, any car within his eyesight, he ‘d shoot them all,” Amornrat said.
The soldier, identified as Jakrapanth Thomma, was finally shot dead early Sunday in the basement of the Terminal 21 shopping mall in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima.
However the rampage started previously