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The gunman is understood to have taken his own life following a gun and knife attack, which saw children as young as two killed.

Firearm-related deaths are much lower than in countries like the United States and Brazil, but higher than in countries like Japan and Singapore that have strict gun control laws. “My thoughts are with all those affected and the first responders. Ambulances stood by as police and medical workers walked in the schoolyard. "The teacher who died, she had a child in her arms," said the woman, whose name wasn't given. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha described the shooting as a “shocking incident” and sent his condolences to the families of the victims, in a post on his official Facebook page. Police say two further children and further adults, including the suspect, his wife and his son, died in addition to those killed at the nursery.

An ex-police officer killed at least 38 people at a daycare centre before killing himself and his family.

Police named the attacker as Panya Kamrab, a local man who had been a police sergeant before he was suspended for drug use in January, and then dismissed in June. We surrounded the house and then found that he committed suicide in his home." "The shooter came in around lunchtime and shot four or five officials at the childcare centre first," a local official, Jidapa Boonsom, who was working nearby, told Reuters news agency. The verdict was scheduled to be delivered on Friday. (@PichayadaCNA) — Pichayada P.

The victims include children and adults, authorities say, adding that the gunman was an ex-police officer who appeared in court on a drugs charge before the ...

Nineteen boys, three girls and two adults were killed in the centre - and more outside. He was facing trial and had been in court on a drugs charge hours before the rampage, and had appeared agitated when arriving at the children's centre. The gunman was armed with a handgun, shotgun and knife, and opened fire at the centre after forcing his way in at around lunchtime. The woman said a teacher was killed while holding "a child in her arms". The victims include children and adults, authorities say, adding that the gunman was an ex-police officer who appeared in court on a drugs charge before the attack. A manhunt was initially launched to catch the perpetrator, named by police as 34-year-old Panya Khamrap, who fled the scene while shooting at bystanders and driving his vehicle at them.

At least 38 people have been killed in a massacre at a daycare centre in northern Thailand, police say. The victims include at least 24 children, ...

Last month, a clerk shot co-workers at the Army War College in Bangkok, killing two and wounding another before he was arrested. “We are still investigating all of this and have to learn from it,” he said. I feel deep sadness toward the victims and their relatives.” [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. Later, investigators said that the suspect “mainly used a knife” to kill his young victims. The tragedy took place at about 12.30pm local time. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google “This shouldn’t happen. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Registration is a free and easy way to support our truly independent journalism Police chief Damrongsak Kittiprapat told reporters that the suspect was a sergeant on the force before he was fired, and that he used a 9mm pistol that he had bought legally.

Police said the gunman was an ex-police officer who shot his wife and child before killing himself, Thai media reported. This frame grab from video footage ...

“The children were two or three years old.” A teacher told the ThaiPBS public broadcaster that the assailant got out of a car and immediately shot a man eating lunch outside, then fired more shots. The attacker forced his way into a locked room where the children were sleeping, she said. “He started shooting, slashing, killing children at the Utai Sawan daycare centre.” Police Major General Paisal Luesomboon told PPTV in an interview that he was fired from the force earlier this year because of a drug charge. “The teacher who died, she had a child in her arms,” a witness, whose name wasn’t given, told Thailand’s Kom Chad Luek television at the scene.

At least 37 people have been killed by an ex-police officer in a mass shooting that began at a nursery school in Thailand. | ITV National News.

The event marks the deadliest mass shooting in the nation’s history. "I didn't think he would kill children, but he shot at the door and shot right through it." 'He shot at the door and shot right through it'

Police said the children, who included toddlers as young as two, were mostly stabbed to death. The other victims, all adults, included at least two childcare ...

Last month, a clerk shot co-workers at the Army War College in Bangkok, killing two and wounding another before he was arrested. “We are still investigating all of this and have to learn from it,” he said. I feel deep sadness toward the victims and their relatives.” [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. Later, investigators said that the suspect “mainly used a knife” to kill his young victims. The tragedy took place at about 12.30pm local time. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google “This shouldn’t happen. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Registration is a free and easy way to support our truly independent journalism Police chief Damrongsak Kittiprapat told reporters that the suspect was a sergeant on the force before he was fired, and that he used a 9mm pistol that he had bought legally.

BANGKOK — A former police officer killed at least 24 children and 11 adults in a gun and knife attack that began at a child care center in Thailand on ...

Twenty-two children and two adults were killed in the building before the assailant fled, according to a police statement. BANGKOK — A former police officer killed at least 24 children and 11 adults in a gun and knife attack that began at a child care center in Thailand on Thursday, authorities said. and nearly 23 per 100,000 in Brazil.

A former policeman killed dozens of people, including 23 children, in a knife-and-gun rampage at a daycare centre.

Gun laws are strict in Thailand where possession of an illegal firearm carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. “He started shooting, slashing, killing children at the Utai Sawan daycare centre.” The attacker forced his way into a locked room where the children were sleeping, district official Jidapa Boonsom said. “We have to test his blood for drugs,” he said. “There were some staff eating lunch outside the nursery and the attacker parked his car and shot four of them dead,” she said. He later shot dead his wife and child at their home before turning a weapon on himself.

An ex-police officer storms a childcare centre killing children, adults, his family and himself.

The verdict was scheduled to be delivered on Friday. But he had mostly used his knife to kill the children, they added. "The attacker rammed a motorbike and two people were injured. The number of fatalities is at least 38, including 23 children. Other adults - and at least one of the children - were killed as the attacker fled from the scene. A former police officer wielding a shotgun, a pistol and a knife has gone on the rampage at a childcare centre in Thailand.

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.

The gunman killed himself and his wife and child after the shooting in the town of Nongbua Lamphu.

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.

Local media reported that the attacker then committed suicide and killed his family. Gunman at Thailand nursery an ex-police officer. The gunman Panya Kamrab ...

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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.

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.

The country's law enforcement operations have done little to shrink the narcotics trade amid a pandemic-related supply glut and instability in Myanmar.

While the bill has been pulled for [additional parliamentary revisions](https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2393686/democrats-defend-ganja-bill-pull-out), at the center of decriminalization is the hope that economic benefits will boost national income. [maritime domain awareness](https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3039768/expanding-maritime-partnership-thailand-us-2022-carat-exercise/) or [bilateral law enforcement training](https://bangkok.ilea.state.gov/) provide a geospatial edge in combating illicit financial flows and continue to be a large component of the U.S.-Thailand strategic alliance and partnership. [introduced a decriminalization law](https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2323330/kingdom-decriminalises-ganja) to combat the illegal cannabis market – and make a profit out of it. State Department’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Office donated around [$370,000 worth of equipment](https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2313530/us-helps-isan-fight-gangs-with-b12-7m) to police in the northeastern border region. UNODC’s [Global Maritime Crime Programme](https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/piracy/index.html) has also helped bolster the Royal Thai Navy and Royal Thai Marine Police’s efforts to crack down on maritime meth routes in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand by providing them with monitoring and identification systems to track the activities of illegal vessels. [Money laundering activities](https://www.voanews.com/a/east-asia-pacific_thai-police-make-rare-arrest-politician-accused-trafficking-migrants-fishing/6199613.html) are pervasive, a consequence of the country’s [highly centralized](https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/ar/132321468308958485/pdf/674860v20WP0P10overnment01201102012.pdf) governance and fiscal system and a non-existent tax system. Meanwhile, unprecedented levels of production of meth pills have led to wholesale and street prices plummeting to [as low as 10-20 baht ($0.28-$0.56) per tablet,](https://www.thaienquirer.com/42351/thailands-methamphetamine-drug-supply-pushes-prices-to-as-low-as-10-baht-tablet/) posing great social consequences for a region that has limited health and harm reduction services. The Asia-Pacific drug trade is estimated to be worth as much as [$61.4 billion](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southeastasia-crime/asia-pacific-meth-drug-trade-worth-up-to-61-billion-u-n-says-idUSKCN1UD0BO) annually, with more than [90 percent of tablets seized](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/asias-synthetic-drug-trade-booms-with-record-meth-seizures-2022-05-30/) in Asia originating from four countries: Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. [tightened border patrols](https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2120935/govt-steps-up-border-patrols), adopting new tactics to capitalize on the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. [Wa Self-Administered Division](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_Self-Administered_Division). Pandemic-related government lockdowns and travel restrictions have contributed to [long-term unemployment](https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1551686/covid-19-crisis-drives-rise-in-long-term-unemployment-in-thailand) and reduced purchasing power, increasing the trade and consumption of illegal drugs. Drug traffickers have grown more creative in exploiting loopholes in Thai customs laws, either by buying meth powder from large networks and pressing tablets themselves or by acquiring “pre-precursors.” Pre-precursors are legal in normal commercial use and allow crime syndicates to [bypass stringent chemical controls](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-drugs/asian-drug-lords-likely-producing-precursor-chemicals-in-golden-triangle-idUSKBN2AC0KF), allowing them to diversify their manufacturing base and circumvent high surveillance regions, including the borders of eastern Myanmar, northern Thailand, and western Laos, also known as the “Golden Triangle.”

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.

Thailand in shock over deaths of children as young as two in mass stabbing and shooting at a nursery.

“I don’t know the motive for this incident. After I refused, she left my house politely,” he said. She described him as a quiet person and also polite. Panchum said she told her colleague to lock the doors. They were in all three rooms. Local medical staff said on Friday that 37 people had died, many of them children. She had recognised the attacker as a parent who had come to the school quite often to drop off his child. “The children were sleeping during the day. After scaling a wall to escape the school with another teacher and a cleaner, Panchum said she ran to get help as the sound of gunfire came from the school. The teachers were in rooms as well, including the pregnant teacher,” she said. But the gunman started to smash the glass as she fled to the back of the building and climbed a wall to escape the school compound. “But, I didn’t think he would do that to the children,” she said.

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".

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.

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.

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.

The grieving mother of a three-year-old child who was among the 36 people killed in a gun and knife rampage at a childcare centre in Thailand described how she ...

In an interview with Amarin TV, Satita Boonsom, who worked at the daycare centre, 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 centre before walking toward it. She said one child who was covered by a blanket survived the attack, apparently because the assailant assumed he was dead. That’s still far lower than the US rate of 120.5 per 100 people, according to a 2017 survey by Australia’s GunPolicy.org nonprofit organisation. It was allegedly carried out by human traffickers in retaliation for a crackdown on their network. By the time she returned, the children were dead. According to a staff member, one child was able to survive as he hid under his blanket and the gunman – who burst into the nursery during nap time – assumed he was already dead. In the late afternoon, relatives wailed in pain as funerals were set to be held at Wat Rat Sammakhi. 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 Centre in Uthai Sawan. Teachers locked the glass front door, but the gunman shot and kicked his way through. The mother died from her wounds, and the boy and grandmother were being treated at hospitals, according to local media. They were followed by weeping family members, who gathered their hands in prayer before placing white flowers on the wooden floor.

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.