Broadcast live footage of it ... an angry Thai soldier commits a horrific massacre

A Thai soldier killed twenty people and wounded more than thirty others in a massacre most of its victims were civilians, and conflicting reports about the motive behind them.

The incident began at 3:30 p.m. local time in Nakhon District, or Korat (260 km northeast of the capital, Bangkok), and continued into the night after the attacker barricaded with what he believed to be a commercial complex.

And Thai media quoted a military spokesman as saying that the soldier "Jacravanth Thoma" attacked his commander at a military base and seized his weapon, before he randomly shot people in the vicinity of a Buddhist temple and shopping complex close to the camp.

Video clips taken by surveillance cameras inside the mall that the soldier stormed showed that he was wearing military uniform and was carrying what appeared to be an automatic weapon.

There were conflicting statements about the soldier's motive, and while a police officer said this was caused by his anger over a land dispute, a police spokesman suggested that he might be mentally ill, noting that the attacker recently posted a photo of a pistol and three bullets and commented on it with the sentence "It has come Fun time. "

The attacker broadcast the attack directly on social media, but two accounts were subsequently closed.

Random kill
According to security sources, the soldier first killed a colleague and a woman, and wounded a third person before going to the vicinity of the mall and randomly opening fire on passers-by. It was not clear if the dead soldier was the commander of the attacker in the barracks.

Local media reported that the soldier seized weapons and a military vehicle from an army barracks before proceeding to shoot indiscriminately in the mall in the city center, where he was reportedly barricaded inside the compound where dozens of shoppers were present.

By nightfall, army and police forces entered the mall and helped hundreds to escape, while a Defense Ministry spokesman said the suspected militant remained at large after the raid.

In addition to civilians, there were police officers among the victims, and pictures of some of the injured appeared, and a security source reported that the soldier shot a doctor who was treating a wounded man.

The attacker posted pictures of him on Facebook and wrote posts on his page, including "Should I surrender?" And "No one can escape death."

A video posted on Facebook, subsequently deleted, showed the attacker, wearing an army helmet in an open jeep, saying, "I am tired ... I can't raise my finger," then he moves his finger as if to press a trigger.

It should be noted that Thailand recorded the highest rates of personnel acquisition of weapons in the world, and in the past years there were cases of firearms killing, but it was limited and the number of its victims was small.