CCTV footage of a injured technical school student, who was was locked out in the street after he crawled up to a convenience store and asked for help, has sparked an online debate in Thailand about public sympathy.
The shocking incident, which was captured on video, shows a mob attacking the lone, unidentified teenager under On Nut BTS station on August 17.
In the video, the student appears shirtless and soaked in his own blood after the beating. He attempted to knock on the store’s door several times, asking store clerks to let him in and give him help. However, he wound up sitting on the ground in front of the store alone until a team of rescuers arrived.
The gang were students from a rival school.
Some netizens said that the store’s employees should have helped the hapless man, but others sympathized with the convenience store workers.
No information was available regarding the identity of the victim or the store’s exact location.
