PATHUM THANI — Police are still hunting a man who opened fire on officers in broad daylight Monday to evade a checkpoint in northern metro Bangkok.
Two cops and a woman were injured by gunfire in Pathum Thani’s Khlong 5 area after police fired at the tire of a car fleeing a checkpoint, prompting its driver to shoot back.
Two police officers were hit by bullets, as was a female passenger inside the vehicle. The driver abandoned the car and his four passengers to flee the scene on foot.
“We found drugs in the car,” police Maj. Amnat Nakvijit said, presuming they were a motive in the suspect’s actions. “There were five people sitting in the car: the gunman, a child and three women.”