Soldier detained in Pattani after allegedly firing gun to threaten female students

The incident took place on Tuesday evening after the suspect’s car brushed the victims’ motorcycle, sending both the motorcycle rider and her passenger to the ground. 
One of the victims, Hanan Zuden, approached the car to complain, but the driver, Sergeant Preecha Intarangsy, 31, got angry, pulled out his gun and fired a shot. 
Hanan and her friend, both students at the Prince of Songkla University’s (PSU) Pattani Campus, were frightened and ran for their lives. Two more shots were fired and the sergeant shouted after them “do you think it is a toy gun?”

Hanan later told her teacher and the campus chief of security about the incident before filing a complaint with police. The campus’s Student Union and its legal team helped the victims 
 lodge the complaint with police in the early hours yesterday. 
“Both victims have now been relocated to a lodging inside the campus for their safety,” the student union’s president Bukori Kamase said.
He added that Preecha had been detained at a police station in Pattani. 
“We will fight for justice,” Bukori said. “Such a violent incident should have never happened, particularly by an official.”
Pattani Task Force commander Maj-General Jatuporn Klampasutra offered a public apology to the students for the soldier’s conduct, saying that he had been upset after a quarrel with his wife. 
He added that Preecha had been transferred to a military prison. 
Preecha would be punished for violating military discipline and charged by police for frightening people and carrying and discharging a gun in public, he said. 
The sergeant had rejected charges of attempted murder, Jatuporn added.