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Thailand Mourns Victims of 'Unprecedented' Shooting Rampage

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   Buddhist monks in northeast Thailand, joined by throngs of mourners,
   burned candles, prayed and chanted Sunday for the victims of the
   country's worst mass shooting.

   A soldier angered over a financial dispute gunned down pedestrians and
   bystanders as he sped down a street in an army Humvee Saturday in
   Nakhon Ratchasima, leaving 29 dead and nearly 60 wounded in his wake.
   Security forces shot and killed the soldier after a 12-hour standoff
   inside a shopping mall Sunday.

   The victims included a 13-year-old boy riding his motorbike and a young
   mother driving with her son.

   Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha said he hopes the shooting "is
   the only one and the last incident, and that it never happens again. No
   one wants this to happen." He called such bloodshed in Thailand
   "unprecedented."

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