A police officer, who was suspected to have suffered from mental stress due to frequent insurgent violence in the Thailand's deep south, shot dead two of his colleagues at a police station in southern province Yala Sunday.
The middle-aged Police Lieutenant Colonel is the chief police inspector at the police station in Bannang Sata district, Yala province. Believed out of mental disorder, he shot dead a colleague on duty at the police station around Sunday noon in the first incident, military sources told Xinhua.
When other policemen tried to seize and control him, he grabbed a gun from one colleague and killed another policeman.
The exact cause of his abrupt violent acts is not immediately known, but other policemen suspected it was intensified stress from almost daily violence that raged the far southern region -- mainly comprising the three southernmost provinces -- Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat since early 2004 and claimed over 3,500 people by now.
Source:Xinhua
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