BFF-41 Death toll in Thai mass shooting rises to 17: emergency services

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Death toll in Thai mass shooting rises to 17: emergency services

BANGKOK, Feb 8, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – A Thai soldier killed at least 17 people
with over dozen more wounded in a shooting Saturday in the northeastern city
of Nakhon Ratchasima, health authorities said.

There were “17 deaths, 14 wounded,” said an unnamed official from
Bangkok’s Erawan Center — the dispatch centre for the nationwide emergency
services who collate hospital information.

BSS/AFP/ARS/2034 hrs