A Russian national was shot and wounded by a lone gunmen in the commercial district of Phuket today (Wednesday).
Phuket police said that the gunman wore a jacket, gloves and covered his face with a crash helmet and hood, adding that he waited on a motorcycle until the victim, a tourist, parked his car in front of a coffee shop at about 11am.
Then the gunman approached the car and fired several shots with a pistol into the car, injuring the victim sat in the driver’s seat, then sped away in a hurry.
Police checked CCTV at the scene and in nearby areas and retraced the gunman’s escape route to the back of the Laguna housing project, about a kilometre from the crime scene, where they found a jacket, shoes, sunglasses and a pair of gloves, believed to have been abandoned by the gunman.
Police did not find the weapon.
The injured Russian was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment.
Police say they will question the victim to determine the motive for the shooting.
