VOCATIONAL SCHOOL SHOOTING
A vocational student on his way to sit an exam was fatally shot by students from a rival school shortly after boarding a bus yesterday. Police said shooting happened about 9.30am in front of the Carrefour hypermarket on Phetkasem soi 71 in Nong Khaem district.
Wanchalerm Meewong, 18, a second-year student at Bangkok Commercial School, was shot after boarding a No81 Omnoi-Pin Klao bus.
Nong Khang Phlu police said a taxi carrying four vocational students from Thonburi Technology School cut in front of the bus.
The four passengers got out, walked alongside the bus and one of them fired three times into the back of the vehicle where Wanchalerm had sat down.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but died of his injuries. Police later identified the shooter as Litnarong, or Jack, a second-year student at Krungthon College of Technology.
Wanchalerm's mother, Mrs Tanom, 55, a seamstress, said her son was on his way to sit an exam at his school. He was a cheerful person and never had problems with anyone.
He had once told her that some of his friends had been attacked or been shot in violent clashes with rival students.
Mrs Tanom said she asked him to study elsewhere. He agreed to move to a new school after the exams were over.
Sarayuth Yeechunket, a teacher at Bangkok Commercial School, said a teacher normally followed buses carrying large numbers of vocational students, to keep an eye on what went on and try to prevent any clashes before school.
Yesterday's shooting came as a surprise, Mr Sarayuth added.
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