Hostage-taker shot, woman rescued
published : 14 Jul 2022 at 19:32
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chakrapan Natanri
Police rescued a woman held hostage by a homeless man armed with a hand grenade in Khon Kaen on Thursday morning, after shooting him in the shoulder, ending a three-hour drama.
The drama began around 9.30am when a man entered a motorcycle repair shop. He was armed with a hand grenade and he took the shop owner's wife hostage.
The hostage, Suwan Tasaengsa, 52, said she just returned to the shop an saw many police on the road. Then a man ran into the shop. He had a grenade in his hand.
He told people in the shop to stay where they were but they all ran away, leaving her alone with him.The held her by the shirt and told her to sit near him. He did not assault her, she said
Police had earlier on Thursday gone to the community after to complaints about repeated thefts. Residents alleged that a homeless man was responsible.
The officers found the man in the area with his cart.
They searched him and the cart and found a pistol and 10 bullets.
The man then produced a hand grenade, and held it in his hand. The man ran into the motorcycle repair shop where he took the owner's wife hostage, police said.
When the time was deemed right, the woman was signalled to run away, and SWAT police fired shots at the hostage-taker.
The man was hit in the left shoulder. He fell down and the officers moved in to take the grenade from his hand. He was taken to hospital.
Vocabulary
- alleged: claimed to be true although not yet proven; claimed to have done something wrong but not yet proven - ที่ถูกกล่าวหา
- assault (verb): to attack someone violently, either physically or in some other way, e.g., smell - ทำร้ายร่างกาย, ทำร้าย
- bullet: a small, metal object that is shot from a gun - กระสุนปืน
- cart (noun): a small vehicle with two or four wheels that you push or pull to transport large or heavy objects on - เกวียน, รถเข็นหรือรถลาก
- grenade: a small bomb that someone throws or fires from a gun - ลูกระเบิดเล็ก
- hostage: a person who is the prisoner of someone who threatens to kill them if they do not get what they want - ตัวประกัน
- rescue: to save a person or animal from a dangerous or unpleasant situation - ช่วยชีวิต
- responsible: deserving to be blamed for something that has happened - มีความรับผิดชอบ
- shoulder: one of the two parts of your body between your neck and the top of your arms - ไหล่
- signal: to make a movement or sound to give somebody a message, an order, etc - ส่งสัญญาณ
- SWAT: Special Weapons And Tactics team: a group of police officers or soldiers trained to deal with dangerous situations -
- theft (noun): (the act of) dishonestly taking something which belongs to someone else and keeping it - การลักขโมย
