Community under siege


Deadly wait: Policemen taking positions on a street near the gunman’s house in Phetchaburi province, southwest of Bangkok. The suspect had shot and killed three people and was firing off rounds at the police stationed there. — AP

Police in provincial Thailand killed a man who had fired at commandos storming his house trying to safely end a 14-hour standoff after he shot to death three people and wounded three others.

The commandos called to the scene to assist local police used an armoured vehicle to cross open ground shortly before 4am to storm the two-storey house in Phetchaburi, about 170km southwest of Bangkok.

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