ABOVE: The Osot Sala pharmacy on Phaya Thai road where a student was killed Tuesday night. Photo: Google
A university in the heart of Bangkok’s commercial district has canceled classes for three days after a female student was killed.
Rajamangala University of Technology’s Uthen Thawai campus, located across from MBK Center between Siam Square and Chulalongkorn Unviersity, announced Wednesday it would suspend classes after a female student was killed in a gun attack Tuesday night at a nearby bus stop.
Another student was wounded in the attack, which police said occured at about 9:30pm while the students were waiting for a bus, Bangkok Post reported.
No CCTV footage of the event could be found, police said, and the motive for the attack was unclear.
The Uthen Thawai tech campus is a source of anxiety for the well-heeled children attending nearby Chulalongkorn, which owns all land in the area.
Some faculties canceled classes there and 400 hundred police officers were deployed last year when Uthen Thawai students took to the streets to protest their school’s pending eviction by Chula.
