BANGKOK: Thai police shot and arrested a gunman who opened fire at a school in southern Thailand, injuring a woman and two children, police and other authorities said. “Police shot the suspect in the Hat Yai shooting,”Thailand’s Central Investigation Bureau said in a statement, after earlier saying he had been killed. A woman and a 14-year old girl were hospitalised with gunshot wounds and both underwent surgery, the ministry of public health said in a statement. A second child suffered an ankle injury after they “fell from a height”, it added.
The suspect entered the Phatong Prathan Khiriwat School in “an agitated state while carrying a gun”, the Songkhla provincial government said in a statement.
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