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Thailand seizes over 2,000 guns in three-day nationwide crackdown

Thailand’s police have seized more than 2,000 illegal guns and 75,000 bullets and arrested 1,593 suspects in a three-day nationwide crackdown following a deadly shooting at a Bangkok shopping mall.
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Bangkok (VNA) – Thailand’s police have seized more than 2,000 illegalguns and 75,000 bullets and arrested 1,593 suspects in a three-day nationwidecrackdown following a deadly shooting at a Bangkok shopping mall.

National Police Chief Torsak Sukvimol said on October 12that policemen raided 3,224 locations across the country on October 9-11.

Torsak said the crackdown operation was a response to theOctober 3 shooting spree at Siam Paragon shopping mall, where ateenage gunman killed two people and injured five others.

Police said the 14-year-old shooter, who is now undergoing psychiatric evaluation, had purchased his modified blank gun online.

The deadly shooting prompted Prime Minister Srettha Thavisinto order a crackdown on all types of illegal guns, said Pol Gen Torsak.

Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul subsequently suspendedthe issuance of permits for importing and trading firearms, as one of sevenshort-term measures to tighten gun control. In the longer term,authorities are looking at amending the country’s 76-year-old firearms law to closeloopholes./.

    
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