Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha speaks to the press at Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital, after a mass shooting incident at the Terminal 21 shopping mall, in the Thai northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima on Feb 9, 2020.
NAKHON RACHASIMA, Thailand (AFP): The soldier who gunned down 27 people in northeastern Thailand did it over a "personal problem", Thai premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha said Sunday, after the mass shooting stunned the nation.
"It is unprecedented in Thailand, and I want this to be the last time this crisis happens," he said outside a hospital where victims were sent after they were evacuated from the shopping mall where the 17-hour rampage took place.
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