Ex-Soldier Opens Fire In Thai Coronavirus Field Hospital, Kills 1

The field hospital was once a drug rehabilitation centre and was reorganised to treat COVID-19 patients.

A former soldier fired gunshots in a coronavirus field hospital in Thailand on Thursday, killing a 54-year-old patient after earlier shooting dead a convenience store employee, police said. The suspect, 23, believed that the patients in the hospital in Pathum Thani near Bangkok were drug addicts and that he hated drug addicts, regional police chief Amphol Buarabporn told Reuters, after an initial investigation. The field hospital was once a drug rehabilitation centre and was reorganised to treat COVID-19 patients. Closed-circuit camera footage that circulated online showed the a man walking into a hospital in combat uniform and red beret brandishing a firearm.