A student was shot dead and another was injured in a clash between rival vocational students in Sukhumvit Soi 101/1 in Phra Khanong district on Thursday afternoon.
Citing witness accounts, Bang Na police said that more than 20 rival vocational students met at the entrance to the lane and started trading abuses.
Then, one group, some armed with knives, attacked and chased their rivals into a side lane. Then four gunshots were fired. It is unclear which side fired the shots, but two students from the same vocational school were hit.
They were rushed to a nearby hospital, but one of them, aged 19, was pronounced dead upon arrival with a gunshot wound to his chest. The other, only 15, was shot in the foot.
Police checked CCTV footage in the area and some of the students have been asked to come in for questioning.
No arrests have been made yet.
