BANGKOK, July 28 – At least six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a market in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Monday, Thai police said in a statement.

The fatalities include the gunman who took his own life, Charin Gopatta, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, told Reuters.

“Police are investigating the identity of the person and the motive for the incident,” Thai police said in a statement. The five people killed by the gunman were security guards at the market, it said.

No tourists were killed or injured in the shooting incident, said Sanong Saengmani, a police official in Bangkok’s Bang Sue district, where the market that mainly sells agricultural produce is located.

Tourism is a key economic driver in Thailand, Southeast Asia’s second largest economy, where growth has been sluggish and such incidents can potentially dampen sentiment.

In video footage shared by police, a suspect in a white hat and a backpack slung on his chest is seen walking through a parking lot at the market.

Gun violence and gun ownership are not uncommon in Thailand. In October 2023, a 14-year-old suspect used a modified handgun to kill two people and injure five others at a luxury mall in central Bangkok.

A year earlier, a former police officer killed 36 people, including 22 children, in a gun-and-knife attack at a nursery in eastern Thailand.

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GAZA, July 28, 2025 – Three citizens were killed on Monday in Israeli shelling of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent reported that three citizens were killed and several others were injured when the occupation forces bombed the Al-Kharoubi family home in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City. They were transferred to the Baptist Hospital in the city.

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GAZA, July 28, 2025 – Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital announced the death of infant Mohammed Ibrahim Adas due to severe malnutrition and a lack of infant formula in the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Strip is seeing a severe humanitarian crisis due to the ongoing blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation forces. This brings the total number of deaths from famine and malnutrition to 134, including 88 children.

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GAZA, July 28, 2025 – Thirteen citizens were killed and others injured on Monday due to the ongoing Israeli shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that five citizens were killed when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential apartment belonging to the Za’rab family in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.

He added that five other citizens were killed and more than 30 injured when the occupation forces bombed a three-story house belonging to the Nofal family near the UNRWA factory in the Japanese neighborhood, west of Khan Younis.

He pointed out that three citizens were killed and several others were injured when the occupation forces bombed a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. They were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.

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KYIV, July 28 – A Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv wounded eight residents of an apartment building, including a three-year-old child, authorities in the Ukrainian capital said on Monday.

Four of those injured in the attack, which took place soon after midnight on Monday, have been hospitalised, with one person in serious condition, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that all of the people were residents of a multi-storey apartment building in the city’s Darnytskyi district on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

“The blast wave damaged windows from the 6th to the 11th floor,” Klitschko said in a post on Telegram.

The capital and most of Ukraine were under air raid alerts for several hours overnight following Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.

With the threat of missile strikes on western parts of Ukraine that border Poland – a NATO member – Polish armed forces scrambled aircraft to ensure the safety of Polish airspace.

The central Ukrainian city of Kropyvnytskyi came under an attack, regional Governor Andriy Raikovych said, adding that emergency services were working on the site and information about potential damage will be released later on Monday.

The full scale of the Russian attack on Ukraine was not immediately known. Reuters’ witnesses heard loud blasts shaking the city of Kyiv overnight in what sounded like air defence units in operation.

There was no comment from Russia on the attack.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strikes in the war that Russia started in February 2022. But thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.

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SHIJIAZHUANG, July 28 – Four people were killed and eight others remain missing after a landslide struck a village in north China’s Hebei Province early Monday, local authorities said.

The landslide, caused by heavy rain, hit the village in Luanping County, Chengde City. Rescue efforts are ongoing.

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TAIYUAN, July 27 – One person was found dead and 13 remain missing after contact with a midsize bus was lost Sunday morning in north China’s Shanxi Province following days of rainfall, local authorities said late Sunday.

The midsize bus carrying 14 people went missing near a village in Tianzhen County in the city of Datong early Sunday morning, the rescue headquarters said.

One body was retrieved in an downstream area at 1:43 p.m. and was later confirmed to be one of the missing ones on the bus, the rescue headquarters said.

As of 4 p.m., authorities at various levels had mobilized more than 700 rescuers to search the roads and rivers that the bus might have traveled with the help of two helicopters, eight drones and six kayaks.

Authorities have even organized township officials, residents and police officers to search 20 km upstream and downstream of the area where the contact was lost.

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July 28 – Two people were killed in a stampede-like situation at the Ausaneshwar Mahadev Temple in India’s Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district, CNN-News18 reported on Monday.

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ABUJA, July 27 – At least five people were killed and 55 others injured after torrential rains triggered devastating floods in Nigeria’s northeastern Adamawa State on Sunday, authorities said.

Ladan Ayuba, head of operations at the National Emergency Management Agency in the state capital of Yola, said the overnight downpour submerged houses and infrastructure in parts of the city, forcing residents to flee.

Wooden boats were deployed to rescue trapped residents, many of whom are now seeking refuge in temporary camps, Ayuba said.

Nigeria frequently experiences severe flooding during its rainy season, which typically begins in March and peaks around mid-May, particularly in the north.

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