Anticommunist dissident's shooting in Laos capital fuels investigation demand

International human rights groups are calling for an investigation into the Saturday shooting of Lao activist and outspoken government critic Anousa Luangsuphom.

Amnesty International said in a statement calling for an investigation of the shooting that it had not been able to independently verify whether Anousa had died.

Video from security cameras uploaded onto a state media website and then circulated on social media shows a gunman in a cap and mask make a tentative entrance into the cafe, step out, walk back in again, and brush past a woman to fire two shots from a handgun into the sitting victim. Another video released online shows paramedics attending to him.