BANGKOK (AP) – Thai police on Wednesday detained a senior police officer who fired multiple gunshots from his home in Bangkok, ending a standoff of over 24 hours after his colleagues tried to take him to be treated for mental illness.
The gunman, identified as police Lieutenant Colonel Kitikarn Sangbun was taken to hospital on Wednesday for an injury after the ordeal, said police Lieutenant General Samran Nualma, an assistant to the police chief. He did not specify the nature of Kitikarn’s injury and how it was obtained, but said no others were injured.
Police Colonel Rangsan Sornsing, superintendent of Sai Mai police station in Bangkok, said on Wednesday Kitikarn’s crazed episode began on Tuesday morning.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
