PHUKET: Two people were injured when a man fired his gun on a minibus on the Phuket-Phatthalung route on Friday morning.
The shooting happened at Khuan Din Daeng curve on Thepkasattri Road in tambon Koh Kaew of Muang district at 6.49am. The scene was about one kilometre from the Phuket bus terminal where the bus just departed.
Police were informed of the shooting by a Thai man, aged about 30, while he was still on the bus.
According to witnesses, two gunshots were heard on the bus. Survivors rushed off the bus soon after the driver stopped the vehicle.
The injured – a man and a woman – were among nine passengers on board. Rescue workers sent them to Mission Hospital Phuket.
The gunman remained on the bus, as some 30 policemen were deployed to handle the incident.
Roads within a kilometre radius of the scene were closed off, and police were negotiating with the shooter.