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Two students arrested for violence under new NCPO order

Two students arrested for violence under new NCPO order

TWO VOCATIONAL students have been arrested for allegedly shooting at rival students in a bus in Bangkok’s Min Buri district on Monday, injuring four people, deputy police chief Pol General Pongsapat Pongcharoen told a press conference yesterday.

Both students’ relatives were also summoned to investigate whether they had been criminally negligent in letting the young men join in brawls.
Natthapong Sangthong and Pakhawat Tanma, both 20, were presented to the media at the Min Buri Police Station along with a shotgun, four bullets, a Honda Wave motorcycle and the clothes the two were wearing on the day of the incident.
Both students’ parents brought them to surrender to police after the incident.
Pakhawat has reportedly confessed to driving the motorcycle while Natthapong, riding pillion, shot at the bus.
The two men said they had exchanged verbally abusive remarks with other students on the bus, whom they pursued and Natthapong opened fire, wounding three students and a Myanmar bystander.
Police charged the two men with attempted murder and carrying a gun and ammunition in a public space without a sound reason.
The two men were also bought to re-enact the crime at the scene of the shooting opposite Chatuchak 2 Market.
Pongsapat urged the people who sold the shotgun to the two suspects to surrender to police and said a summons would be issued for anyone who incited rivalries and violence between students. He added that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) order number 30/2559 was designed to prevent violence in public that has led to the deaths and injuries of students as well as bystanders.
The order covers students, their parents, schools, and anyone who is involved in or instigates fighting, Pongsapat said.
In this case, Natthapong’s mother and Pakhawat’s grandmother were called in by police to explain how they took care of the young men to determine if they had neglected them and allowed them to brawl, he said, adding that this was the first case prosecuted under the NCPO order.
Acting city police chief Pol Lt-General Sanit Mahathaworn said he had already instructed police precincts to review the records of students suspected of being involved in violence. Sanit added that he would send a letter asking schools and parents to cooperate, and that police would set up checkpoints and search factories that could manufacture weapons used in student violence.
Charnvej Boonpraderm, deputy secretary-general of the Office of the Vocational Education Commission, said he had instructed Bangkok vocational colleges to inform teachers, parents and students about the NCPO order.
He also confirmed that colleges that failed to solve student violence would be prohibited from enrolling new students.
 

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