VOA常速英语2019--泰国发生枪击案导致数十人死亡（在线收听）

This is VOA news. I'm Jim Bertel.

A Thai security officer was killed early on Sunday in a raid into a shopping mall to try to stop a soldier on a shooting rampage. There brings the death toll to at least 21 and the standoff continues. AP's Charles De Ledesma has more on how the siege began.

泰国某安全人员周日早上在一次向商场内部进发的突袭中死亡，这次袭击进入了某商场，试图阻止一名士兵引发枪击案。死亡人数至少21人，僵局还在持续。下面请听美联社记者查尔斯·莱德斯马就围攻开始的方式发回详细报道。

Video taken inside a car catches gunshots fired as one passenger reacts in terror.

在一辆小汽车内拍摄的视频捕捉到了枪击画面，当时还有一名乘客惊慌失措。

Police say the soldier had initially shot dead another soldier and a woman apparently over a land dispute. Then the man took a gun from him military base and drove to the mall where shooting continued.

警方表示，这名士兵一开始因土地纠纷问题而射杀了另一名士兵和一名女子，随后，这名男子从军事基地拿来了一杆枪，驱车前往该商场，枪击一直在持续。

Video taken outside the mall and shared on social media shows people taking cover in a parking lot as gunshots are fired.

在商场外拍摄的视频也分享在了社交媒体上。视频显示，枪击发生时，人们躲在一个停车场里。

I'm Charles De Ledesma.

以上是查尔斯·莱德斯马发回的报道。

Eight people are dead and dozens injured in an outburst of violence in Kazakhstan Saturday.

周六，在哈萨克斯坦爆发的一起暴力事件中，8人死亡，数十人受伤。

The country's interior minister says about 300 people were involved.

哈萨克斯坦内务部部长表示，近300人牵涉其中。

Area residents said on social media that it was an ethnic dispute.

当地的居民在社交媒体上表示这是一次种族纠纷。