INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
By Russell Hope, news reporter A mother driving with her son, a teenager on a motorbike and a mother trying to protect her two-year-old
child are among the victims of Thailand's worst mass shooting.As the country begins to mourn the 29 people who died in Sergeant Major
Jakrapanth Thomma's killing spreein a shopping mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, details of some of his victims have started to emerge.High school
student Nachote Chotiklang was in the passenger seat as his mother drove past the gunman's vehicle.Image:Nuttawut Kanchanamethi broke down
as he remembered his 13-year-old son Rachanon, killed in the massacreImage:A group of people hide in a storage room in the Terminal 21
Pic: Jon FieldingHe said that Thomma "got out of the car and fired into the window
At that, I ducked down and didn't do anything until I felt that car hit something
It hit a tree".His mother had died.A 13-year-old boy, Rachanon Kanchanamethi, nicknamed 'James Bond', was one of the soldier's first
victims.The middle school student was riding his motorbike home when Thomma, 32, who was angry over a disputed land deal involving his
commanding officer, fired on him from his car on his way to the mall.Rachanon, the family's only child, was one of the first victims.On the
first day of his son's Buddhist funeral, his father, Nuttawut Kanchanamethi, sobbed as he said: "I don't want to lose him like this
We had plans for him, growing up.Image:Family members visiting injured victims of the mass shooting in hospitalImage:A candle light vigil
was held for the 29 dead victims"I want to continue taking care of him, but I no longer have that opportunity."Sirirat Kualraksa lost her
sister, Papatchaya Kualraksa, her brother-in-law and her young nephew in the attack.A Thai soldier has gone on a shooting rampage north east
of Bangkok.Image:Gunman Jakrapanth Thomma was shot dead by security servicesPapatchaya, 33, hid with her husband and their two-year-old son
in a supermarket storage room and, in a Facebook call, told her sibling she was scared."Gunshots could be heard endlessly and loudly
But there was no sign" of a rescue, Sirirat said
Still, "both of us thought that she would be able to get out".They exchanged several Facebook messages before Papatchaya went quiet.Security
camera footage shows the suspected Thai gunman walking through a Thai shopping centre
Sirirat, 43, later received photographs from a friend, an officer who went to the mall, of the body of her sister, arms wrapped around her
two-year-old, and the boy's father nearby.Thomma's massacre began with his commanding officer, Colonel Anantarote Krasae, before stealing
guns from an army camp and heading to the mall, shooting wildly along the way at people inside and outside the building.Image:A relative
holds a picture of Patchara Chanpeng, one of the gunman's victimsVideo taken outside the mall showed people diving for cover as shots rang
Many were killed outside the mall, some in cars and others while walking.Another 58 people were wounded before, after an hours-long search,
Thomma was eventually shot by police.
