Russian man shot in Phuket

Police and rescuers examine a car in which a Russian man was shot and injured by an armed man in tambon Choeng Thale, Thalang district, Phuket province, on Wednesday. (Photo supplied)
Police and rescuers examine a car in which a Russian man was shot and injured by an armed man in tambon Choeng Thale, Thalang district, Phuket province, on Wednesday. (Photo supplied)

A man suspected of shooting and injuring a Russian man in a gun attack in Phuket on Wednesday has been arrested, police said.

The suspect, who was identified as Artur Legay from Kazakhstan, was detained by immigration police at Phuket International Airport on Thursday morning.

At around 11.45am on Wednesday, the Phuket 191 emergency response centre received a report that a foreign man who was sitting in a car was seriously injured in a gun attack in front of a café.

According to witnesses and security camera footage from the area, when the car arrived in front of the café, a man, whose face was covered, who had earlier arrived on a motorcycle, approached the car. He then fired four shots with a handgun at the man sitting inside through the windscreen. After the shooting, the attacker fled on the motorcycle.

The man in the car, later identified as Dmitry Aleynikov, a 44-year-old Russian national, sustained gunshot wounds to the chest, right armpit and left arm. Rescuers extracted the unconscious and bleeding man from the vehicle and rushed him to Thalang Hospital.

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Vocabulary

  • approach: to move closer to someone or something - เข้าใกล้
  • armpit (n): the part of the body under the arm where it joins the shoulder -
  • detained: kept in a place and not allowed to leave - กักตัว ควบคุมตัวหรือฝากขัง
  • flee (past form: fled) (verb): to leave a place or person quickly because you are afraid of possible danger or consequences - หนี
  • immigration police: the police agency dealing with people entering and leaving the country - สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง
  • injured (adj): hurt in an accident, natural disaster, attack, etc. - ได้รับบาดเจ็บ
  • suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
  • sustain: to experience, injury, damage, loss, etc. - ประสบกับ (ความสูญเสีย การเจ็บป่วย)
  • unconscious : in a sleeplike condition, usually from an illness or injury - หมดสติ
  • windscreen: a windshield; the large glass window at the front of a vehicle - กระจกหน้ารถ
  • witness: a person who sees something happen - ผู้ที่เห็นเหตุการณ์
  • wound: an injury in which your skin or flesh is damaged - บาดแผล
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