A gunman has intimidated at least one tourist in Patong in Phuket yesterday. Local CCTV footage and eyewitness statements helped police officers at Patong Police Station observe down the gunman, 25 yr previous Kittipong Chanthawong, nicknamed ‘Bank’.
Bank had allegedly accosted the unnamed vacationer on Bangla Road. Bank surrendered to police close to a water store subsequent to a university.
Police confiscated Bank’s gun, bullets and clothes. The vacationer who Bank accosted earlier in the day then identified Bank to the investigating police. So far, neither Bank’s motives, nor the costs he might face, have been confirmed. Unsung that it was not confirmed whether or not Bank had approached or threatened some other vacationers. Bank is originally from the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat.
This news comes after another man threatened vacationers with a knife at a purchasing centre in Pattaya final month. Pattaya Police detained the person at Pattaya Police Station, and declare he was incoherent and couldn’t properly reply questions. The man had also reportedly been speaking in circles. The police reportedly had to make use of particular tools to subdue him, and the person did not identify himself.
He reportedly might have been a international national from a rustic neighbouring Thailand.
A similar incident occurred when a drunk man carried a big knife and threatened tourists on Pattaya Beach in 2020. He reportedly yelled incoherently as he threatened folks. Police were called by local distributors after the person continued to be a nuisance in the area. The man was cooperative with police and acknowledged he was “just drunk” and needed to go home to Bangkok..