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VOA常速英语:泰国发生枪击案导致数十人死亡

2020-02-10来源:和谐英语

This is VOA news. I'm Jim Bertel.
A Thai security officer was killed early on Sunday in a raid into a shopping mall to try to stop a soldier on a shooting rampage. There brings the death toll to at least 21 and the standoff continues. AP's Charles De Ledesma has more on how the siege began.
Video taken inside a car catches gunshots fired as one passenger reacts in terror.
Police say the soldier had initially shot dead another soldier and a woman apparently over a land dispute. Then the man took a gun from him military base and drove to the mall where shooting continued.
Video taken outside the mall and shared on social media shows people taking cover in a parking lot as gunshots are fired.
I'm Charles De Ledesma.

Eight people are dead and dozens injured in an outburst of violence in Kazakhstan Saturday.
The country's interior minister says about 300 people were involved.
Area residents said on social media that it was an ethnic dispute.