Swedish Foreign Ministry confirms death after Patong shooting in Phuket

A man was shot and killed in the Patong area of Phuket on 7 February, according to Thai police reports from the incident. Police said the shooting happened in daylight on Siriraj Road, near hotels, and that the victim later died at Patong Hospital. The shooting is supposed to be gang-related.

Thai police identified the victim as Ameer Mundher Mahmood, 24, an Iraqi national visiting Phuket as a tourist, he was also a Swedish citizen. Investigators said a helmeted gunman approached him at close range and fired several shots before fleeing, and that CCTV footage captured the suspect’s movements.

Police later arrested a Colombian man, Fernando Guevara Sanchez, and said he was detained in Phuket while attempting to leave Thailand on a flight to Doha. Thai police said they secured an arrest warrant and recovered evidence from the scene, including bullet casings, while forensic and autopsy work continued.

Swedish broadcaster SVT reported that the victim was also a Swedish citizen in his 20s with ties to Sweden, and that Thai media had described the man as Iraqi. Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs told SVT it was aware that a Swedish man in his 20s, resident in Sweden, died in Thailand on 7 February and that relatives had been notified.

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