Students' shooting blamed on school rivalry

[StrontiumDog]

Students' shooting blamed on school rivalry

Students' shooting blamed on school rivalry

By The Nation
Published on July 13, 2011

Two Pathumwan Institute of Technology (PTWIT) students - a boy and a girl - were shot and wounded yesterday near their home in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district by two men on a motorcycle, an incident police theorised was based on school rivalry.

Sattawat Wongphrome is safe but girlfriend Wilai Nathakaranont is in a critical condition after they were struck by three bullets. Sattawat was shot four years ago by students of a rival institute, but recovered, his brother told police. Police believe the gunmen waited for Sattawat near his home.

Lat Phrao police are investigating the recent killing of a PTWIT student in Nonthaburi, which they said might be linked to this case.

According to Nonthaburi police intelligence, both victims were close to friends of the unnamed PTWIT student killed in the Nonthaburi attack.

Inter-school tradition is said to require students of an unnamed school, said to be a rival to PTWIT, to shoot or attack one or two PTWIT students on a daily basis, said the sources.

[yortyiam]

Scary stuff all this violence against their fellow students. Too often innocent people get hurt or worse . What started all of this in the first place?

[Neo]

What started all of this in the first place?

A woman, or in this case a girl, obviously.