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Thai police arrested former MP Chalong Riewrang on Monday for allegedly shooting a Nonthaburi local government chairman and his driver. The incident follows a school shooting that killed eight people and reignites concerns about Thailand's gun control crisis.
Thailand confronts a surge in gun violence following a school shooting that killed nine people on Friday. A former lawmaker fired at government officials Monday, reigniting urgent calls for stricter firearm regulations.
Philippine Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla has attributed the death of a construction worker during last September's anti-corruption protests to a stray bullet from an unregistered weapon, not police firearms.
Authorities arrested a 15-year-old suspect after a shooting at Seattle's annual Bite of Seattle food festival killed three people and wounded four others, including a two-year-old child.
Authorities in Cape Town are investigating two separate mass shooting incidents that claimed seven lives and injured five others in different townships on the Cape Flats on Wednesday evening.