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Police say they are working to identify deceased suspect.<\/em><\/p>\n Five people have been killed and one person wounded in a shooting in Thailand\u2019s capital, Bangkok, police say.<\/p>\n The shooting occurred at Or Tor Kor Market in the Bang Sue district of northern Bangkok at 12:31pm (05:31 GMT) on Monday, the Royal Thai Police said.<\/p>\n All five of the deceased victims were security guards at the market, and the suspected perpetrator took his own life, according to police.<\/p>\n \u201cPolice are investigating the motive. So far, it\u2019s a mass shooting,\u201d Worapat Sukthai, deputy police chief in the Bang Sue district, was quoted as telling the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n The police are working to identify the suspect and investigating \u201cany possible link\u201d to the current border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, the official said.<\/span><\/p>\n The shooter was seen in surveillance footage wearing a black T-shirt, a cap, camouflage shorts and a backpack hung over his chest, the Thai Public Broadcasting Service reported.<\/p>\n Gun violence is relatively common in Thailand compared to much of the rest of Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n In 2020, a junior army officer killed 29 people and wounded 58 in a shooting rampage in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police say they are working to identify deceased suspect. Five people have been killed and one person wounded in a shooting in Thailand\u2019s capital, Bangkok, police say. The shooting occurred at Or Tor Kor Market in the Bang Sue district of northern Bangkok at 12:31pm (05:31 GMT) on Monday, the Royal Thai Police said. All<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6335,6336,632,306,150,364,4527,6334],"class_list":{"0":"post-12692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-bangkok","9":"tag-crimea","10":"tag-killed","11":"tag-market","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-people","14":"tag-shooting","15":"tag-thailands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}