Thailand Preschool Shooting

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.

The death toll at 37 people eclipses that of the US's deadliest school shooting: the 2012 Sandy Hook tragedy when 20 children and six adults were killed.

The mass killing comes less than a month after an army officer shot dead two colleagues at a military training base in the capital Bangkok. Overnight, coffins carrying the victims' bodies arrived at a morgue in Udon Thani, the closest city to the sleepy rural district ripped apart by Thursday's three-hour rampage. Emergency workers carry coffins containing the bodies of victims on 6 October at a hospital in Udon Thani, Thailand. The age range of the children at the daycare centre is from two to five years, a local official said. Emergency workers inspect coffins containing the bodies of victims at a hospital in Udon Thani, Thailand. An armed police officer standing guard as relatives of the victims of a mass shooting gather at a childcare centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province, northeastern Thailand. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha says the rampage is a "shocking incident". More information and support with mental health is available atand on 1300 224 636. Flags on government buildings flew at half-mast on Friday in a gesture of mourning for one of the deadliest days in recent Thai history. While the police chief said the attacker had been in a manic state, it was not known if he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack. A relative of one of the victims cries outside the childcare centre where the attack took place. It's one of the world's worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history.

A day after a former cop involved with drugs went on a killing spree in Thailand that left two dozen pre-schoolers dead, calls are mounting for a national ...

He killed at least 24 children, Jackrapat Wijitwaitaya, a local police official, told Bloomberg. Other victims included various officials and a teacher who was ...

The former police lieutenant colonel was dismissed from the force last year for drug use, per officials, and was reportedly embroiled in a legal case relating to drug charges. Also, last month, another soldier fatally shot two of his colleagues at a military facility in Bangkok. He killed at least 24 children, Jackrapat Wijitwaitaya, a local police official, told [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/thai-daycare-center-shooting-leaves-32-dead-mostly-children). Other victims included various officials and a teacher who was eight months pregnant, local official Jidapa Boonsom told [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/least-20-people-killed-mass-shooting-thailand-police-2022-10-06/). After fleeing the scene in his car, Kamrab shot more people on the road, police said. [Panya Kamrab](https://abcnews.go.com/International/dozens-dead-mass-shooting-child-care-center-thailand/story?id=91092225), used an automatic weapon to fire at the center located in Thailand's Nong Bua Lamphu province today around 12:30 p.m.

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.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the site on Friday. Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida were expected to go to hospitals, where seven ...

He had been due to appear in court on Friday. Some of them were still in their afternoon naps,” said 29-year-old Bangkok resident Chamita Itthiponwitoon. More than 4.7 million people had sent posts by Friday afternoon under a Thai hashtag that translated as #MassShootingNongBuaLamphu. They were small kids, they did not deserve this. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the site on Friday. [Grief and anger have engulfed Thailand](/news/2022/10/7/the-children-were-sleeping-witness-to-thai-nursery-massacre) a day after the mass killing of children and adults at a preschool daycare centre by a former Thai police officer who went on a rampage of stabbing and shooting before he shot his wife, child, and himself.