A FORMER soldier fired gunshots in a Covid-19 field hospital here, killing a 54-year-old patient after earlier shooting dead a convenience store employee, police said.
The suspect, 23, believed that the patients in the hospital in Pathum Thani near Bangkok were drug addicts and he hated drug addicts, regional police chief Amphol Buarabporn told reporters, after an initial investigation.
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