Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy who went on a shooting rampage inside Siam Paragon shopping mall, killing two people and injuring five others — two of them critically — on Tuesday afternoon.
The teenager was brought to the Pathumwan police station for questioning but he was in a confused state, saying he had heard voices telling him to shoot people, according to the national police chief.
The boy had received treatment in the past for mental health issues at Rajavithi Hospital.
The police chief confirmed two people were killed in the incident — earlier reports had put the death toll at three. The first was a 34-year-old Chinese woman who died on the ground floor of the shopping centre. The other was a woman from Myanmar who died at Police General Hospital.
Three injured people were sent to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. One woman was shot in the head and her condition was listed as critical. The other two, a Thai man and a Chinese woman, were stable.
A 28-year-old Lao woman was taken to Bangkok Christian Hospital. She was reported to be in critical condition with after a bullet struck her in the armpit and entered her shoulder.
A Thai woman wounded in the left shoulder and taken to Police General Hospital was declared out of danger.
