Thailand Soldiers

A former soldier fired gunshots in a coronavirus field hospital in Thailand on Thursday, killing a 54-year-old patient after earlier shooting dead a convenience store employee, police said.

An emotional Thai army chief on Tuesday urged a nation in mourning over a mass shooting "not to blame the army" after a soldier gunned down at least 29 people in a rampage linked to a debt dispute with a senior officer.

In a fourth floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a Thai soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside.

The Thai soldier who killed at least 21 people and holed up in a mall overnight was "shot dead" Sunday morning.

A Thai soldier who has killed at least 21 people in a shooting rampage was thought to be holed up in the basement of a shopping mall in northeastern Thailand on Sunday and security forces were closing in on him, a police officer said.

Gunfire volleys rang out early Sunday hours after Thai security services stormed a mall where a soldier who killed at least 20 people was believed to still be holed up.

Thailand's newly-crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn was carried by soldiers on a gilded palanquin through the streets of Bangkok Sunday, in front of crowds who craned to witness the historic event.

A team of US military personnel and British divers joined rescue efforts at a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for five days as heavy overnight rains hampered the search.

Five soldiers including a regional army commander have been killed in a helicopter crash in northern Thailand, the military said today, a day after the chopper went missing in bad weather.

Fresh explosions rocked Thailand's deep south seriously wounding one soldier today, days after a spate of bomb and arson attacks struck multiple tourist resort towns.

A roadside bomb killed a 22-year-old Thai soldier today and critically wounded another member of a patrol team providing security to teachers in the country's insurgency-torn southern tip.

Speaking to 1,000 of his soldiers at a mountain base on Myanmar's border with Thailand, the leader of a powerful ethnic armed group called on other rebels to join government-led peace talks and appealed for unity among the country's minorities.

Dozens of Thai students were detained by soldiers today after they attempted to stage a protest at a public park at the centre of a corruption scandal that has shaken the kingdom's military junta.

Suspected militants have shot dead two Thailand soldiers and burned their bodies, police said today, in the latest outbreak of violence in the kingdom's insurgency-battered deep south.

Unidentified gunmen shot dead two soldiers in an ambush in Thailand's south today, police said, and dozens of banners calling for independence have been found in the insurgency-plagued region.

A former soldier fired gunshots in a coronavirus field hospital in Thailand on Thursday, killing a 54-year-old patient after earlier shooting dead a convenience store employee, police said.

An emotional Thai army chief on Tuesday urged a nation in mourning over a mass shooting "not to blame the army" after a soldier gunned down at least 29 people in a rampage linked to a debt dispute with a senior officer.

In a fourth floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a Thai soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside.

The Thai soldier who killed at least 21 people and holed up in a mall overnight was "shot dead" Sunday morning.

A Thai soldier who has killed at least 21 people in a shooting rampage was thought to be holed up in the basement of a shopping mall in northeastern Thailand on Sunday and security forces were closing in on him, a police officer said.

Gunfire volleys rang out early Sunday hours after Thai security services stormed a mall where a soldier who killed at least 20 people was believed to still be holed up.

Thailand's newly-crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn was carried by soldiers on a gilded palanquin through the streets of Bangkok Sunday, in front of crowds who craned to witness the historic event.

A team of US military personnel and British divers joined rescue efforts at a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for five days as heavy overnight rains hampered the search.

Five soldiers including a regional army commander have been killed in a helicopter crash in northern Thailand, the military said today, a day after the chopper went missing in bad weather.

Fresh explosions rocked Thailand's deep south seriously wounding one soldier today, days after a spate of bomb and arson attacks struck multiple tourist resort towns.

A roadside bomb killed a 22-year-old Thai soldier today and critically wounded another member of a patrol team providing security to teachers in the country's insurgency-torn southern tip.

Speaking to 1,000 of his soldiers at a mountain base on Myanmar's border with Thailand, the leader of a powerful ethnic armed group called on other rebels to join government-led peace talks and appealed for unity among the country's minorities.

Dozens of Thai students were detained by soldiers today after they attempted to stage a protest at a public park at the centre of a corruption scandal that has shaken the kingdom's military junta.

Suspected militants have shot dead two Thailand soldiers and burned their bodies, police said today, in the latest outbreak of violence in the kingdom's insurgency-battered deep south.

Unidentified gunmen shot dead two soldiers in an ambush in Thailand's south today, police said, and dozens of banners calling for independence have been found in the insurgency-plagued region.