PUBLISHED: 23 Dec 2024 at 09: 00
A drink-addled user reacted to a waiter’s repeated shots inside the busy diner in Hat Yai area on Sunday night, leading to a boy celebrating his birthday and losing both his younger sisters to their parents.
Around 10 p.m. on Sunday, the shooting took place at the Khrua Paowana restaurant on Nuan Kaew Uthit Road.
According to witnesses, the assailant was Akarapon Pamchamnong, a 50-year-old defence voluntary of Helmet Yai area, police said.
He arrived at the bistro by himself to have a sip. After a while, he stepped outside to smoke on the roads. A servant left the table after he believed he had finished eating.
When Mr. Akarapon saw that, he argued with the cafe owner and the server before leaving.  ,
He afterwards returned, resumed the conflict, drew out a gun and fired it regularly.
Two users were killed- Sitthipong Siriphan, 48, and his family Orachon Ieankham, 45, both shot in the head.
The pair had brought their younger children to the restaurant for their 12-year-old son’s birthday party. The child survived, but his younger girl suffered a brain scar.
Two other people were wounded. Paowana Uttha, the 46-year-old restaurant, even received a shot wound to the nose, and another client, Suriya Supradit, 42, was shot in his right shoulder.
The shooter surrendered to authorities. At the landscape, eight 9mm shells were discovered.