NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Terminal 21 reopened for business on Thursday after the shopping centre was shut down by a gunman on Saturday, during a rampage that claimed 30 lives and left 58 people wounded.
Shop owners, well-wishers and officials first gathered at the mall for a morale boosting "Strong Together" event. It started with a merit-making rite by 219 monks, followed by chanting for good luck and a bai si blessing ceremony.
Many posters on social media made a point of promising to continue using the shopping mall, despite the weekend's nightmare events.
"Give everybody working at the mall my support to get through what has happened," Charto de Pratunam wrote on a Facebook account.
"When you don't leave the people of Korat, we won't leave you, either," Ittipon Weangsantia wrote.
Terminal 21 was the centre of the carnage on Saturday and into Sunday, as Sgt Maj 1st Class Jakrapanth sprayed hundreds of bullets at people shopping and working there after beginning his killing spree in an army camp.
He took 29 lives and hurt 58 others before police commandos shot him dead on Sunday morning.
