Survivors of Thailand mass shooting recount ordeal

Some of the victims of a mass shooting in Thailand's Northeast spoke of their ordeal on Sunday, as they were visited by the country's former Deputy Prime Minister in hospital in Nakhon Ratchasima.

A soldier with a grudge gunned down 26 people and wounded 57 in Thailand's worst mass shooting before he was fatally shot inside a mall in the country's northeast on Sunday, officials said.

Officials said the soldier was angry over a financial dispute, first killing two people on a military base and then went on a far bloodier rampage Saturday, shooting as he drove to the mall where shoppers fled in terror.

It took police sharpshooters 16 hours to end the crisis.