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.