Gunman ‘with grudge' kills five at Bangkok market
The victims included four security guards at the Or Tor Kor market in northern Bangkok, according to a police statement.
It said a vendor there was also killed, and that two others were wounded.
Mr Noi is a person who loves and is very protective of his car, and is also a violent person
The market is next to the sprawling Chatuchak weekend market, which is popular with Thai and foreign tourists.
A statement by Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Commissioner issued several hours after the shooting said the gunman's wife told them that he had held a grudge against the security guards related to his car being scratched in 2019 or 2020.
The wife has a food stall at the market, the statement said.
'Mr Noi is a person who loves and is very protective of his car, and is also a violent person,' said the statement, identifying the suspect only by a nickname.
It said the gunman walked away after the shooting and shot himself with a handgun on a bench.
He had been wearing a black T-shirt, military-pattern shorts, a baseball cap and a backpack.
The statement stressed that the incident involved a personal conflict and was not linked to the border fighting with neighbouring Cambodia, as had been rumoured on social media.
A policeman of a special operations unit at a crime scene at a market in Bangkok, Thailand (Nava Sangthong/AP)
Gun violence is not unusual in Thailand, which has fairly restrictive laws but also a high level of gun ownership.
The last mass shooting in Bangkok was in October 2023 when a teenage boy shot more than half a dozen people at the Paragon shopping centre with a modified blank pistol in the city's main shopping district, killing three people.
One of the country's worst mass killings occurred in October 2022 in the north-eastern province of Nong Bua Lamphua, when a police sergeant who had lost his job used guns and knives to kill 36 people, including two dozen toddlers at a day care centre.
In February 2020, a disgruntled Thai army soldier shot and killed 29 people, most at a shopping centre in the north-eastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima, before he was killed by police after an 18-hour stand-off.
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