On Thai Buddhist holy day, gunman's carnage shatters temple peace - Reuters
When the first round of shots was fired, everyone thought it was one of those firecrackers going off," Amornrat, clad in white robes, recalled on Sunday.
Instead, a Thai soldier fleeing his military base after killing a guard and his commanding officer was gunning people down in the early stages of an 18-hour shooting spree in which he would kill 29 people.
"Anybody, any vehicle within his eyesight, he'd shoot them all," Amornrat said.
The soldier, identified as Jakrapanth Thomma, was finally shot dead early Sunday in the basement of the Terminal 21 shopping mall in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima.
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