Thailand-Soldier goes berserk-Two shot dead
Two shot dead
Two shot dead
By The Nation on Sunday
Songkhla
Published on July 31, 2011
A soldier went berserk yesterday, killing a lieutenant and a man for his motorcycle.
Private Surasak Boonchoo, 22, shot dead his chief Lieutenant Suwan Mudee with an M16 before shooting dead Abdulkarim Mata who was riding past on a motorbike and witnessed the incident on the Hat Yai-Pattani road.
Surasak then stole his motorcycle. An unidentified person was also shot and injured and rushed to Thepha Hospital.
Suwan drove a pick up to take Surasak to a bus station in Hat Yai to take a bus home to visit his sick mother in Nakhon Si Thammarat because he was stressed about his mother being in a critical condition.
Suwan was believed to have said something that upset Surasak.
Police and soldiers were hunting the man amid fears the stressed assailant might attack others.
