Three students were shot dead and their motorcycle set on fire after a crash involving a BMW sedan in Khao Phanom district of Krabi province in the early hours of Tuesday.
A 42-year-old man was later arrested after police surrounded a car tyre shop in tambon Phru Tiew in Khao Phanom.
A black BMW with Bangkok licence plates was found parked in the shophouse garage. The windscreen on the driver’s side was shattered.
Police and rescue workers were rushed to the scene. They found three teenage students, a boy and two girls, lying dead in the roadside grass with gunshot wounds. A burned motorcycle was on the road.