Families of student brawl call for tougher measures
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The families of those killed in Wednesday's shooting incident on a Bangkok bus are urging the authority to pass tougher laws on student brawls, enabling the police to quickly catch the shooter and closing permanently any school that it unable to control i
On Wednesday evening, a group of six technical college students opened fire at rival students from Thaivichitsilp School on the Rangsit-Victory Monument bus resulting to the deaths of Thaivichitsilp freshman Wanchai Thongsongkaew, 21, and female passenger Yupa Plaingam, 48, and injuring two others.
Yupa’s husband Lerngchai, accompanied by their two children and Yupa’s twin sister Yupin Thanomnnoom, collected Yupa’s body at the Police General Hospitals’ morgue at noon today. The morgue announced Wanchai’s cause of death as a gunshot wound to the heart and lung while Yupa’s was brain damage caused by a gunshot.
Lerngchai said Yupa, his wife of 15 years, worked as a cleaning maid and took this bus to and from work. Saying he was shocked at her death, he urged the authorities to implement a tougher law and close schools that couldn’t control their students. Yupa had mentioned student brawls on the route before so he urged her to take airconditioned buses to avoid getting caught in the line of fire but his wife wanted to save her hardearned money, he recalled.
Wanchai’s parents, Police Senior Sergeant Major Wana Thongsongkaew and his wife Atchariya Yardnam, also came to collect their youngest son’s body for the funeral.
