A former Thai MP shot a local official, then called a YouTube show to confess. The victim and his driver are seriously injured. Days earlier, a student killed seven in the same province.
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Days after a student opened fire at a school in Thailand, a former Member of Parliament shot a local government official on Monday (local time), before calling into a YouTube show and telling its presenters about the shooting.
BBC News reported the development and identified the MP as Chalong Reawraeng, a former lawmaker for the province of Nonthaburi. His victim has been identified as Thongchai Yenprasert, the president of Nonthaburi Provincial Administrative Organisation.
Thongchai and his driver, who was also wounded in the shooting, were taken to hospital, with several reports describing their condition as "seriously injured." The incident occurred only days after a student carried out a shooting in the same province, killing seven people at his home and school before taking his own life, in Thailand's deadliest mass shooting since 2022.
Chalong has served as an MP for three terms, most recently under the Pheu Thai Party. The 71-year-old alleged shooter earned the title of a "cobra", a Thai reference to a lawmaker who goes against party lines, after he voted for a prime ministerial candidate from another party in 1997. In the latest election, he ran for office under the ruling Bhumjaithai Party but failed to win a seat.
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