City comes to terms with tragedy

Paying tribute: People laying down flowers at a vigil for victims following a deadly mass shooting in Nakhon Ratchasima. — AFP

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Authorities in northern Thailand began releasing bodies to relatives after security forces cornered and killed a soldier who carried out the country’s worst mass shooting in an hours-long siege at a shopping mall.

The soldier killed 29 people starting with his commanding officer in a stunning tragedy that began Saturday and ended Sunday morning when security forces shot dead the heavily armed attacker in Terminal 21 Korat, a mall in Nakhon Ratchasima.