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Police say the gunman is a former police officer and that he shot himself, his wife and child following the incident in northern Thailand.

[holding out for hours](https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-thailand-shooting-idUKKBN2020T7) before he was eventually shot and killed by law enforcement. [in a statement](https://www.facebook.com/prayutofficial/posts/pfbid0H9WC5eXQqAUiAEoC793MrHyYiJMgJSvh9PBeNTLNnKb525n2nxTuxGP2hHaiZJTyl). “The images are heartbreaking and our deepest condolences go out to the families who lost loved ones,” he said in a national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the United States “was horrified” by the shooting and stands ready to assist Thailand in whatever it needs. Thailand, with a population of nearly 70 million, has more than 10 million privately owned guns, of which over 4 million are illegal, according to a My thoughts are with all those affected and the first responders,” British Prime Minister Liz Truss She said she was able to escape because the shooter ran out of bullets. They added that most of the children were asleep when the attack happened because it was nap time. Videos of the aftermath shared on social media showed scenes of carnage and grief. Others show scenes of carnage inside. Padnya then made his way into a locked room where kids were sleeping and attacked them with a knife, Jidapa said. During his escape, he killed nine more people, running some over with his vehicle, according to police.

At least 34 people—including 22 children—were killed on Thursday after a former police officer opened fire inside a daycare center in northeastern Thailand, in ...

[resulted](https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-thailand-shooting-idUKKBN2020T7) in 29 deaths over two days and ended with the soldier being shot dead. [according to](https://www.gunpolicy.org/about) GunPolicy.org run by the University of Sydney. The shooting At the time Reuters [reported](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-shooting-guns-idUSKBN20D25W) that the incident had triggered calls for a re-examining of the country’s gun laws. [Mass murder at child care centre, 34 confirmed slain](https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2408603/mass-murder-at-child-care-centre-34-confirmed-slain) (Bangkok Post) [Thai police: More than 30 killed in childcare center attack](https://apnews.com/article/shootings-thailand-84efe7ba76707f4b3d47ee8394c4f24f) (Associated Press) [reported](https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2408603/mass-murder-at-child-care-centre-34-confirmed-slain).

A former policeman killed 38 people, including 22 children, in a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand on Thursday, later shooting dead his ...

Gun laws are strict in Thailand, where possession of an illegal firearm carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha was expected to visit the region on Friday. The massacre is among the worst involving children killed by one person. We surrounded his house and then found that he committed suicide in his home," Damrongsak Kittiprapas told reporters. "He started shooting, slashing, killing children at the Uthai Sawan daycare centre," Paisal said. "It's a scene that nobody wants to see.

A former police officer killed 34 people including 22 children in a mass shooting at a daycare centre in eastern Thailand today, later killing his wife and ...

"It's a scene that nobody wants to see. Thailand's police chief said the perpetrator had tried to break into the premises and had mostly used a knife in the killings. A Reuters photographer also saw th ebody of the shooter, Panya Khamrapm, being moved in a bodybag from a van to a police station in the province. The man had been in court earlier in the day and had then gone to the daycare centre to collect his child, police spokesperson Paisal Luesomboon told broadcaster ThaiPBS. The age range of children at the daycare centre was from two to five years, a local official told Reuters. In one of the world's worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history, most of the children who died at the daycare centre in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 km northeast of Bangkok, were stabbed to death, police said.

The gunman fled the scene, shooting from his car as he drove home, where he killed his wife and child before taking his own life, police said.

But he continued to shoot people from his car, police Major General Paisal Luesomboon told the Associated Press. After arriving home, he killed his wife and child and then himself, police said. Alphabet pictures and other colourful decorations adorned the walls.

North-east region preschool centre attacked by gunman who also killed himself and his family.

“I thought that it was a firecracker, then when I looked out of the window, I saw people on the floor. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in June of “extreme volumes of methamphetamine” being produced, trafficked and used in south-east Asia. Another teacher told the channel that she was on the phone when she heard a loud bang. The children, aged between two and four years old, were sleeping at the time, she said. Police said most of the children killed at the centre were stabbed to death. Thailand’s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, who is expected to visit Nong Bua Lamphu on Friday, said in a statement on Facebook that he offered his deepest condolences to the families of the victims.

The gunman, identified by the police as Panya Kamrab, 34, shot and stabbed children at the child-care center, some as young as 2, Police Col. Jakkapat ...

“We stand with the people of Thailand and offer our deepest condolences to the victims and their families,” the embassy said in a statement. The Estonian Foreign Ministry [offered](https://twitter.com/MFAestonia/status/1577959172490018816?s=20&t=pkprztaEv4u5TVJopqm57A) its “deepest sympathies” to the families of the victims. He then stole a Humvee and drove to a seven-story shopping mall, where he engaged the police in an hourslong standoff that ended the next morning. At the time, the United Nations reported that the number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia had exceeded a billion in 2021. As in other areas of the northeast, life there is governed by the harsh annual fluctuation between drought and floods. The gunman had been scheduled to appear in court on Friday in connection with the drug charge, he added. It “is a close second to the army in terms of manpower and budget,” More recently, besides the production of opium, the “Thai stick” strain of marijuana became a staple of American drug culture in the 1970s, and methamphetamines have bedeviled Thailand for decades. Like more recent antidrug efforts [in the Philippines](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/philippines-manila-duterte-market-three.html), the effort to clear the streets of illicit drugs devolved into a campaign of widespread extrajudicial killings. Panya likely to be “one of the people on the ground,” he said. Panya was set to go on trial on Friday, and the 9-milimeter pistol he used in the attack was legally owned, the police said. Earlier Thursday by the national police chief, General Damrongsak Kittipraphat, had said 37 people were killed, in addition to the gunman.

The assailant, a former police officer, fired from his car as he drove home, where he killed his wife and child and then took his own life.

But he continued to shoot people from his car, police Major General Paisal Luesomboon told the Associated Press. After arriving home, he killed his wife and child and then himself, police said. Alphabet pictures and other colourful decorations adorned the walls.

The attacker, a former policeman who was sacked for a drug offence, took his own life after killing his own wife and child at home.

“We are still investigating all of this and have to learn from it,” he said. Police Major General Paisal Luesomboon told PPTV in an interview that he was sacked from the force earlier this year because of drug-related offences. Pictures of the alphabet and other colourful decorations adorned the walls.

More than 30 people, mostly children, were killed when a gunman opened fire in a childcare centre in north-eastern Thailand on Thursday, authorities said.

The Daily News newspaper reported that, after fleeing the scene of the attack, the assailant returned to his home and killed himself along with his wife and child. According to Thai media reports, the gunman also used knives in the attack and then fled the building. Police Major General Achayon Kraithong said the shooting happened in the town of Nongbua Lamphu early in the afternoon.

Thirty-seven people have been killed, most of them young children, in a gun and knife attack at a preschool centre in north-east Thailand that has horrified ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned in June of “extreme volumes of methamphetamine” being produced, trafficked and used in south-east Asia. “I thought that it was a firecracker, then when I looked out of the window, I saw people on the floor. The children, aged between two and four years old, were sleeping at the time, she said. “I was begging [for him to stop] but he was loading the bullet so I ran to the back and we closed the door, we ran out of the window,” she said. Police said most of the children killed at the centre were stabbed to death. Thailand’s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, who is expected to visit Nong Bua Lamphu on Friday, said in a statement on Facebook that he offered his deepest condolences to the families of the victims.

The attacker, a former policeman who was sacked for a drug offence, took his own life after killing his own wife and child at home.

“We are still investigating all of this and have to learn from it,” he said. Police Major General Paisal Luesomboon told PPTV in an interview that he was sacked from the force earlier this year because of drug-related offences. Pictures of the alphabet and other colourful decorations adorned the walls.

A former police officer killed at least 24 children and 11 adults in a gun and knife attack that began at a childcare centre in Thailand on Thursday, ...

But he continued to shoot people from his car, police Major General Paisal Luesomboon told the Associated Press. After arriving home, he killed his wife and child and then himself, police said. Alphabet pictures and other colourful decorations adorned the walls.

Pink and white coffins adorned with gold and bearing the bodies of the 22 children killed in a gun and knife rampage in Thailand were loaded onto a truck ...

It's a scene that nobody wants to see. "Nobody wants this to happen. will feel so depressed and saddened," Mr Anutin said.

A horrific attack on a childcare centre in northern Thailand that has left dozens dead, prompted strong international condemnation on Thursday.

“No-one should be a target.” No child should be a target or witness of violence anywhere, anytime. “UNICEF condemns all forms of violence against children.

Joy's son has had two bullets removed from his head; she keeps going over their last conversation before the attack when he begged her not to go to school.

Joy said she tried to focus all her energy on reassuring him. She describes in visceral detail seeing bodies and blood everywhere. The line looks endless. "I was holding his legs and feet in the ambulance and trying to tell him to be strong." We're standing by a narrow road as a convoy of vehicles arrive. It looks like an assembly line.

Nation in shock after 37 people, most of them children, were killed, while Thai media question why red flags weren't raised earlier.

In the afternoon, coffins bearing the bodies of the victims were taken to local families, to be handed over to relatives. Teachers had tried to lock the front door to keep him out, but he shot and kicked his way into the building. He had appeared in court earlier on Thursday on a drug charge and was due to appear again on Friday. According to local reports, a tablet costs 10 baht (£0.24) for wholesale, about the same as a bottle of water. Crowds gathered outside a local hospital to see the motorcade pass by. Afterwards, he met families of the victims and handed out compensation cheques.

Thai government buildings flew flags at half mast on Friday to mourn the death of more than 30 people, including 23 children, after an ex-policeman burst ...

In the late afternoon, relatives wailed in pain as funerals were set to be held at Wat Rat Sammakhi. He had just got a new haircut and was proudly showing it off, said his aunt, Naliwan Duangket, 27. Abandoned juice boxes were scattered across the floor. Most of the children, aged between two and five, were slashed to death, while adults were shot, police said in the aftermath of one of the world's worst It was not clear if Panya still used drugs. One witness, Kittisak Polprakan, said he saw the attacker calmly walking out of the daycare centre - a pink, one-storey building surrounded by a lawn and small palm trees - after the massacre "as if he was just taking a normal stroll".

At least 38 people, including 24 children, were killed in a gun and knife attack Thursday at a childcare center in northern Thailand. It was the country's ...

Mass shootings are rare in Thailand, but this is the second incident in less than three years that has resulted deaths. Images have since emerged online that show children and adults lying in pools of blood on the floor following the deadly attack. It's time for Thailand to wake up and realize that protecting its people means getting this situation under control rather than treating this as a 'one-off' incident that can be ignored," Robertson told VOA via email. rate of 120.5 per 100 people, according to a 2017 survey by Australia's GunPolicy.org nonprofit organization. We stand with the people of Thailand and extend our deepest condolences to those who lost their loved ones today. According to district official Jidapa Boonsom, the gunman had entered the nursery in Uthai Sawan town around lunchtime before shooting four or five staff, including a teacher who was eight months pregnant, before forcing his way into a locked room where children were sleeping and killing them, she told Reuters. But the number of those killed could have been more. "I feel deep sadness toward the victims and their relatives." In 2020, a solider of the Royal Thai army shot and killed 29 people and injured 58 more at a military camp and a shopping mall in Nakhon Ratchasima before being shot and killed by authorities. Thai people seek mental health help much more than before," he told VOA. The motive for the killings is unknown. “We are deeply saddened by the tragedy in Nong Bua Lam Phu province,” he said.

The attacker then shot and killed his wife and their 4-year-old child before killing himself, according to officials. The toll in Thursday's massacre surpassed ...

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The attack in Nong Bua Lamphu Province, one of the country's poorest, was the worst mass shooting by a sole perpetrator in Thailand's history.

The king was expected to visit a hospital in the area in the evening. He was angered by a financial dispute with the family of his superior officer, according to the country’s then army chief. Saeksan Sriraj, the husband of a pregnant teacher who was killed in the attack, thanked people for their support in a Facebook post. Anutin said that the authorities were in the process of conducting an autopsy on the gunman to determine what, if any, substances were in his body during the time of the shooting. Thailand, with a population of about 70 million, had only 656 psychiatrists and 422 psychologists in the entire country, according to the W.H.O.’s Mental Health Atlas 2020. After visiting one of them, a 3-year-old, at Udon Thani Hospital, the minister said the boy was hooked up to a breathing tube and responsive despite suffering a skull fracture. Outside the day care center, he saw a man who appeared to be in his 40s and a young child lying in a pool of blood. That means the king will pay for the funerals of those killed and the medical expenses of the wounded. He decided to drive to the subdistrict office to check in on his friend. But it was unclear when he bought the firearm and whether he was using drugs at the time. A pregnant teacher whose husband said she was “doing her duty as teacher to the fullest capacity.” A young girl who liked to play pretend with her grandmother. Portraits of the victims, 24 of whom were young children, began to emerge, showing the magnitude of loss: A 3-year-old who loved racing toy cars and riding in real ones.

Pink and white coffins bearing the bodies of the 22 children killed in a gun and knife rampage in Thailand were loaded onto a truck late on Thursday.

"Nobody wants this to happen. will feel so depressed and saddened," Anutin said. - Pink and white coffins adorned with gold and bearing the bodies of the 22 children killed in a gun and knife rampage in Thailand were loaded onto a truck late on Thursday and driven away in the darkness.

Grief-stricken families have been gathering outside a Thai nursery where an ex-policeman murdered nearly two dozen children in one of the kingdom's worst ...

"I was very shocked and frightened. We were very sad that we didn't buy pizza for him before," Ms Naliwan said. As the day wore on and the heat rose under the baking tropical sun, more and more people arrived at the nursery - the whole of a small rural community united in grief. Outside the nursery, in a local government compound on the edge of a village deep in the green farmlands of northeast Thailand, scores of traumatised relatives gathered. Flags on government buildings are flying at half-mast in a gesture of mourning for one of the deadliest days in recent Thai history. A line of heartbroken parents placed white roses on the steps of the nursery as the baking sun bore down on them this morning.

Devastated families in north-eastern Thailand have been mourning the nursery school children and other victims killed by a sacked police officer in the ...

“He came to do what he had in his mind and was determined to do it. And we all felt this across the community very quickly. “My wife and my child have gone to a peaceful place. A vigil was planned in a central Bangkok park. They are running through my heart,” said Seksan Sriraj, 28, whose pregnant wife was a teacher at the centre and was due to give birth this month. I am alive and will have to live.

An ex-policeman killed 37 people, 23 of them children, at a nursery before killing himself and his family.

Police said the armed attacker broke into the building just after lunch time on Thursday, shooting his way past a teacher and parent outside. Thursday's attack comes less than a month after an army officer shot dead two of his colleagues at a base in Bangkok. He had been due to face a verdict on Friday. "I was at the factory [when] my friend asked me to check the news. On her phone are photos of Pattarawut, taken just hours before the shooting. His step-son used to attend the centre but hadn't been for the past month.

This violence is both senseless and heartbreaking. We stand with the people of Thailand and extend our deepest condolences to those who lost their loved ones ...

We are deeply saddened by the tragedy in Nong Bua Lam Phu Province, where a gunman took the lives of at least 38 people, including 24 children. We stand with the people of Thailand and extend our deepest condolences to those who lost their loved ones today. This violence is both senseless and heartbreaking.

Relatives grieving staggering loss Friday laid flowers at a day care center in rural northeastern Thailand where a fired police officer killed dozens of ...

In an interview with Amarin TV, Satita Boonsom, who worked at the day care center, said staff locked the door to the building after seeing the assailant shoot a child and his father out front. Witnesses said the attacker shot a man and child in front of the center before walking toward it. The mother died from her wounds, and the boy and grandmother were being treated at hospitals, according to local media. She said one child who was covered by a blanket survived the attack, apparently because the assailant assumed he was dead. "He came to do what he had in his mind and was determined to do it. By the time she returned, the children were dead. Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida were expected later in the day to visit hospitals, where seven of the 10 people who were wounded remain. Teachers locked the glass front door, but the gunman shot and kicked his way through it. Prime Minster Prayuth Chan-ocha was expected to visit the day care center and the hospitals. When asked whether he thought the center was secure enough, Seksan noted the attacker had been a police officer. They are running through my heart," said Seksan Sriraj, 28, who lost his pregnant wife due to give birth this month in the attack at the Young Children's Development Center in Uthai Sawan. At least 24 of the 36 people killed in the assault, Thailand's deadliest mass shooting, were children.