UPDATE: At least 20 people killed after a Thai soldier opened fire at different locations in Nakhon Ratchasima in northeast Thailand, police say.
Video taken outside the mall and shared on social media showed people taking cover in a parking lot as gunshots were fired.
The mall was shut down and the street outside was closed while the authorities tried to arrest the gunman and rescue shoppers inside. Defense ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Kongcheep Tantrawanich said police and military units had locked down the mall and the surrounding area. The incident comes just a month after another high-profile mall shooting, in the central Thai city of Lopburi. In that case, a masked gunman carrying a handgun with a silencer killed three people, including a 2-year-old boy, and wounded four others as he robbed a jewelry store.
A suspect, a school director, was arrested less than two weeks later and reportedly confessed, saying he did not mean to shoot anyone.
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