Bangkok Oct 8, An Indian tourist was killed and another was seriously injured in a shootout in Bangkok Thai police said on Monday.

The shootout between two groups of teenagers took place on Sunday night next to a parking lot of the Centara Watergate Pavilion shopping mall in the city s Pratunam area reports Xinhua news agency. According to Metropolitan Police One commander Pol. Maj. Gen. Senit Samransamruatkit the unidentified assailants were armed with AK-47 assault rifles.

The police said that the two groups had emerged from a nearby snooker club into an alley beside the parking lot and began a fight that quickly escalated into an armed battle.
Three more people -- two Thai one Lao -- were also injured.

--IANS