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- Gunman with a grudge kills 5 and wounds 2 at a Bangkok market before killing himself, police say</p>
<p>July 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM</p>
<p>1 / 2Thailand ShootingA policeman of a special operations unit at a crime scene at a market in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, July 28, 2025 where police says six people are dead after a shooting incident. (AP Photo/Nava Sangthong)</p>
<p>BANGKOK (AP) — A gunman shot and killed five people at a popular fresh food market in the Thai capital on Monday before killing himself, police said, attributing the shooting to a personal grudge.</p>
<p>The victims included four security guards at the Or Tor Kor market in northern Bangkok, according to a police statement. It said a vendor there was also killed, and that two others were wounded.</p>
<p>The market is next to the sprawling Chatuchak weekend market, which is popular with Thai and foreign tourists.</p>
<p>A statement by Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Commissioner issued several hours after the shooting said the gunman's wife told them that he had held a grudge against the security guards related to his car being scratched in 2019 or 2020. The wife has a food stall at the market, the statement said.</p>
<p>"Mr. Noi is a person who loves and is very protective of his car, and is also a violent person," said the statement, identifying the suspect only by a nickname.</p>
<p>It said the shooter walked away after the shooting and shot himself with a handgun on a bench. He had been wearing a black T-shirt, military-pattern shorts, a baseball cap and a backpack.</p>
<p>The statement stressed that the incident involved a personal conflict and was not linked it to the border fighting with neighboring Cambodia, as had been rumored on social media.</p>
<p>Gun violence is not unusual in Thailand, which has fairly restrictive laws but also a high level of gun ownership.</p>
<p>The last mass shooting in Bangkok was in October 2023 when a teenage boy shot more than half a dozen people at the Paragon shopping mall with modified blank pistol in the city's main shopping district, killing three people.</p>
<p>One of the country's worst mass killings occurred in October 2022 in the northeastern province of Nong Bua Lamphua, when a police sergeant who had lost his job used guns and knives to kill 36 people, including two dozen toddlers at a day care center.</p>
<p>In February 2020, a disgruntled Thai army soldier shot and killed 29 people, most at a shopping mall in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima, before he was killed by police after an 18-hour standoff.</p>
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