Thailand nursery attack

The gunman, a 34-year-old former police officer, killed his wife and child before shooting himself dead, police said. The attack is reported to have happened at ...

[soldier killed at least 29 people and wounded 57 in a rampage that spanned four locations](https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/08/thai-soldier-kills-at-least-17-in-gun-rampage-streamed-on-facebook). Twenty-two children and two adults were killed in the building before the assailant fled, according to a police statement. A mass shooting and knife attack has killed at least 37 people, including children, at a nursery in northeast Thailand.

Thailand nursery attack: Police colonel Jakkapat Vijitraithaya from Nong Bua Lam Phu province said there were 23 child victims and the attacker, ...

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.

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.

BANGKOK: A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself ...

The Philippine Embassy in Thailand so far has not received any report that Filipinos were among the casualties in the deadly attack of a childcare center in ...

(We are one with the people of Thailand in sorrow and in shock over this tragedy. At sana nga po ay hindi na lumala ang nangyari,” she said. At kami po ay nakikiramay sa mga pamilya ng biktima.

Families tell of the moment they heard about gun and knife attack that killed 37 people, most of them children.

The feeling in the village in the morning, it’s just sad.” “I rushed to check the name list, and I saw my grandson’s name and I fainted.” Napaporn Horngan, 44, who lives in the town, said she came to support those who had lost loved ones. “I don’t know what to say. When she heard there had been an incident on Thursday, she went to the centre immediately. I went home.” Pimpa Thana sat in the middle of the hall with her husband. I saw people trading drugs in front of my house.” It’s such a cruel incident,” she says. Women dressed in black and with heads bowed each placed a white rose on the entrance steps. Local people brought donations of water and food. Her two twin boys, Ongsa and Phupa, were killed in the attack.

A survivor says the attacker shot at the door as children in the childcare centre were sleeping.

Most of the children who died at the daycare centre in Uthai Sawan on October 6 were stabbed to death, police said, marking one of the worst child death ...

And less than a month ago an army officer shot dead two colleagues at a military training base in the capital Bangkok. Witness Paweena Purichan, 31, said the attacker was well-known in the area as a drug addict. He said the attacker - who used a legally purchased pistol - had been due in court on a drugs charge, adding that Panya was in a manic state but it was unknown whether it was drug-related. Some wept inconsolably, wiping their eyes as loved ones hugged them. Flags on government buildings flew at half-mast on October 7 in a gesture of mourning for one of the deadliest days in recent Thai history. Outside the nursery - a low building in a local government complex fronted by a lawn - scores of people gathered on October 7 to mourn and pay their respects.

An ex-police officer killed at least 37 people at a childcare 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.

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.

People who witnessed a deadly rampage at a Thai nursery have described the horrific moment a former police officer burst in and began attacking staff and ...

So many children got killed, I've never seen anything like it." I really can't think of anything at the moment," she said. "It's really shocking. She said she told other colleagues to get into a room and had locked the door before climbing out over a wall to get help. He then "smashed down the door with his leg and then came inside" and began attacking the children, she said. The teachers were trying to lock the door, but he broke in and went into the rooms where the children were sleeping, she said.