Siege in Phetchaburi: Police shoot out of control man dead after he kills 3, injures four in 15 hour standoff

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that an armed siege in a housing estate in the sleepy city of Phetchaburi in south/central Thailand came to an end around four this morning.

 

The man responsible who had been holed up in his house - 29 year old Anuwat Waenthong - was shot dead by police in a judicial killing.

 

The 15 hour standoff played out in Soi 4 at the Krungpetch Villa estate in Ban Rai Kluay in Ton Mamuang sub-district.

 

Other reports suggested there had been around 100 shots fired during the night as police exchanged fire.

Senior policeman Pol Gen Torsak Sukhwimon had led the police operation.

 

Earlier a video had shown the shooter's mother speaking to him via a loudspeaker in a vehicle in an effort to get her son to give up.

 

He was apparently stressed about having to go to court to face drugs' charges.

 

One of the injured victims was the local mayor of Ton Mamuang. All the dead were retrieved and the injured taken to hospital.

 

The shooter had apparently fired at neighbors from his house.

 

Daily News said that Anuwat was a former temporary employee of the Tap Lan national park and that he was an expert marksman.

 

At 4.13 am the provincial governor Natthachai Namphoonsuksan gave details about what had happened to the press.

 

This latest shooting comes after high profile international followed incidents such as the Terminal 21 shootings in Korat that claimed more than three dozen lives and the multiple shootings at a nursery school in Nong Bua Lamphu, both in the north east of the country.

 

On both those occasions the shooter was also shot dead by police.

 

Guns are often used in the pursuit of crime with police making regular seizures.

 

Gun ownership in Thailand is huge with both illegally made local weapons and imports widely available.

 

Police have tried to crack down on their sale online but the gun violence - and deaths - continue unabated.

 

Extra reporting from the ASEAN NOW news team.

 

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[dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

shot dead by police in a judicial killing.

Let's not try to be too clever. You might get something wrong. It is extrajudicial not judicial and this was not extrajudicial. Thaksin's war on drugs involved extrajudicial killings. 

[2baht]

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

This latest shooting comes after high profile international followed incidents..............

What utter rubbish! This is totally Thai! Take ownership!

[Grumpy one]

One less demented idiot with a gun to worry about

Good work Plod

[edwinchester]

7 minutes ago, 2baht said:

What utter rubbish! This is totally Thai! Take ownership!

Read the article again, it is pointing out that the mass killings in Thailand were widely reported by foreign media.

[ezzra]

15 hours to take out a lone guy? where are the special police forces with their snipers and tactics? just as well there was only one and not many, Imagin if 10 or 20 would have been barricaded themselves the police will take forever like to flush them out.

Edited March 23, 2023 by ezzra

[sammieuk1]

More like the sleepy city of Bakhmut today ????

[VinnieK]

'Judicial killing' lol

[norfolkandchance]

Her in doors says students rented next door and there was a long running dispute with the shooter. Maybe about noise.

[BobBKK]

Live by the gun and die by the gun - just look at USA!   no sympathy - why did it take 15 hours?

[ThailandRyan]

24 minutes ago, ezzra said:

15 hours to take out a lone guy? where are the special police forces with their snipers and tactics? just as well there was only one and not many, Imagin if 10 or 20 would have been barricaded themselves the police will take forever like to flush them out.

fools rush in where angels fear to tread

 

phrase of fool

 

1. PROVERB

   people without good sense or judgment will have no hesitation in tackling a situation that even the wisest would avoid.

[ThailandRyan]

2 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

Live by the gun and die by the gun - just look at USA!   no sympathy - why did it take 15 hours?

I can see you've never tried to negotitate a standoff down. It takes time to try and end it amicably without any more deaths, but your like those who watch auto racing just to see the crashes....

[BobBKK]

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I can see you've never tried to negotitate a standoff down. It takes time to try and end it amicably without any more deaths, but your like those who watch auto racing just to see the crashes....

He killed 3 people?  no sympathy from me Mr. Self Righteous 

[steven100]

he won't have to go to court now ...   solved

[ThailandRyan]

19 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

He killed 3 people?  no sympathy from me Mr. Self Righteous 

So it would have been OK for the police to rush on in and have more wild gunfire from the gunmen kill them or innocent bystanders outside as the bullets flew outside from inside. It doesn't bother me that he died, however it would have when and if others had because of the negligence created by rushing in and of which you seem to condone with your view of it taking too long.

Edited March 23, 2023 by ThailandRyan

[BangkokReady]

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

What utter rubbish! This is totally Thai! Take ownership!

It's very poor writing, but the author means something like "events that attracted international attention".  So still things happening in Thailand, but that made it to the international news.

[mancub]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

I can see you've never tried to negotitate a standoff down. It takes time to try and end it amicably without any more deaths, but your like those who watch auto racing just to see the crashes....

Amicably ????  Doubt that the families of those he just murdered would see it like that.

Not as if he was holding hostages either. 

[ChrisY1]

"was shot dead by police in a judicial killing."......Judicial killing?? Who on earth writes this utter trash?

[ThailandRyan]

45 minutes ago, mancub said:

Amicably ????  Doubt that the families of those he just murdered would see it like that.

Not as if he was holding hostages either. 

Amicably by surrendering voluntarily without force necessary. You must think that justice would be served by blowing up the house and killing him. You definitely don't like any judicial system, no matter how bad it is. Back we go to the wild west, hangem high, shoot it out, shoot the one who wronged you in the back, lynch mob mentality I see from a few posting.

[webfact]

Phetchaburi armed siege ends, gunman shot dead by police
 

 

After a tense 15-hour armed standoff at a housing estate in Mueang district of Thailand’s Phetchaburi province, police stormed the house in which a gunman was holding out and shot him dead early this morning (Thursday).

 

The Phetchaburi armed siege came about a week after another armed standoff in Bangkok’s Sai Mai area, in which an apparently agitated police officer, Pol Lt-Col Kittikarn, fired several gunshots from his house, which was then surrounded by police for more than 24 hours. Police ultimately stormed the house to end the siege and shot the police officer dead.

 

In the Phetchaburi incident, the gunman, Anuwat, who was a former employee at Tap Lan National Park, was alleged by police to have shot and killed three people and injured two others, including the mayor of Ton Mamuang Tambon (sub-district) Administrative Organisation, at the housing estate in Ton Mamuang sub-district yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/phetchaburi-armed-siege-ends-gunman-shot-dead-by-police/

 

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[Kiwiken]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

15 hours to take out a lone guy? where are the special police forces with their snipers and tactics? just as well there was only one and not many, Imagin if 10 or 20 would have been barricaded themselves the police will take forever like to flush them out.

they would try to negotiate and get perp to surrender before shooting. SOP. 15 hours is not overly long. If 15-20 you bring in Armed Forces units

[Jackbenimble]

4 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Let's not try to be too clever. You might get something wrong. It is extrajudicial not judicial and this was not extrajudicial. Thaksin's war on drugs involved extrajudicial killings. 

says Dinsdale - who proceeds to try and be too clever.

[trainman34014]

The Terminal 21 Shooter was not killed by Police; he shot himself after making Mincemeat of the 'Attacking Force' !

[VinnieK]

2 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

"was shot dead by police in a judicial killing."......Judicial killing?? Who on earth writes this utter trash?

Google translate? ????

[1happykamper]

100 rounds?  One nut job inside a house.  5 bullets max.? 

Edited March 23, 2023 by 1happykamper
Typo

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

"An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind." Often attributed Gandhi but this may not be the case.  

But wouldn't that mean that some people had already taken people's eyes?  As in, each case of "an eye for an eye" a guilty party would have taken someone's eye, so steering away from "an eye for an eye" would simply leave a load of people having had their eyes attacked.

 

I wouldn't put too much stock in Gandhi anyway.  He was apparently quite an unpleasant person.

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, 1happykamper said:

100 rounds?  One nut job inside a house.  5 bullets max.? 

With what a Barret .50 caliber with an x-ray scope to see through  the wall......

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

"An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind."

It's also worth pointing out that this is a misunderstanding of the original phrase.

 

"An eye for an eye" doesn't mean that it's right to inflict on someone something similar to what they have done.  It means that no one should be punished more than what they have done to others.

 

I.e. If someone has taken another's eye, they should only lose an eye themselves, not two eyes, a nose and their left foot.

[ikke1959]

The man was upset and see what happened a policeforce of about 100 men placed the man under siege... No wonder tensions rise, if you are being treatened by 100 police/army men... Than again there was a long dispute about noise. We all can imagine that noise is really used in some countries a torture instrument, only in Thailand it is common. Noise pollution is everywhere, as said many times, but with a lack of regulation and enforcement more accidents like this will occur. Than another question of this story is why could he order so many bullits online? As Thailand wants to control everything, why not this?... and why 15 hrs? why not shoot him in he arm. leg or whatever instead of killing him? I don't care, as he killed 3 others too, but still..... 

[stoner]

no doubt he was high off the weed.