Australian travelling with family arrested for illegal gun

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Australian travelling with family arrested for illegal gun possession boarding a Ko Samui flight

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41-year-old man’s brother Mick Bassal was killed in a shooting in Sydney at a signage firm in a suburb of the city in 2016. Police in Ko Samui said on Wednesday that they did not think the gun was purchased to commit a crime in Thailand nor had the arrested man a criminal background. https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/12/23/australian-held-on-gun-charges-in-ko-samui-mark-bassal/ Carla Boonkong reports from Ko Samui.

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