Thailand News

2022 - 10 - 8

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Mass shooting in childcare centre throws spotlight on gun ownership ... (The Straits Times)

There is a thriving black market for illegal firearms. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In 2019, there were 31,419 gun-related crimes, according to the Royal Thai Police. Police General Damrongsak said Panya - who killed himself after shooting his wife and child too - did not have a drug abuse record when he applied to the force. Thursday's mass shooting that left 37 people dead, including the shooter, is the most fatal in recent Thai history. These were targeted to be sold online, where such items are reportedly cheaper and buyers need not go through extensive background checks. They also have to undergo background checks, and former convicts, drug abusers, disabled persons, mentally unsound individuals and minors are ruled out. [The mass killing of 22 children in a childcare centre](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/ex-cop-kills-at-least-38-including-22-children-in-thailand-daycare-mass-shooting) in north-eastern Thailand by a former police officer armed with a knife and a gun has turned attention to the issues of gun violence and gun ownership laws.

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Prayers, sorrow at temples as Thailand mourns children slain in ... (Reuters)

Hundreds gathered in temples in northeast Thailand on Saturday, offering candles, toys and prayers to mark the lives of more than 30 mostly child victims of ...

"It was so quiet," he said. "I'm thinking of them," she said, her face blurred to protect her identity. It was only him who walked out." "There are no other words to describe this feeling," he said. It was not clear if Panya still used drugs, although policy say his autopsy found no evidence of drug use at the time of his death. He liked to watch documentaries with his father."

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Thailand in mourning after day care center shooting (The Manila Times)

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Thailand Child Centre Shooting Leaves Behind Broken Homes ... (Outlook India)

A massacre at a childcare centre in Thailand killed at least 36 people, 24 of whom were children. It's believed to be Thailand's deadliest shooting incident ...

Sheets cover the bodies of young victims at the site of an attack in a day care center in the town of Nongbua Lamphu, north eastern Thailand. A family of a victim mourns as they bring a blanket and a milk bottle during a ceremony for those killed in the attack on the Young Children's Development Center in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand. Following the attack, he fled the scene and died by suicide at his home.

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Thailand shooting: Mourners pray at temple filled by children's ... (Globalnews.ca)

Coffins containing the 36 killed, 24 of them children and most of them preschoolers, were released Friday and placed inside Wat Rat Samakee and two other ...

Panya was cremated Saturday in the neighboring province of Udon Thani after Buddhist temples in Uthai Thani refused to host his funeral, Thai media reported. It was allegedly carried out by human traffickers in retaliation for a crackdown on their network. Police have said they believe Panya was under a lot of stress from tensions between him and his wife, and money problems. “It is a tragedy that this evil thing has happened,” the king told reporters in a rare public appearance. The family of rice farmers is close, with three generations living under one roof. Late Friday, King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida visited hospitals where seven people wounded in the attack are being treated.

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Thai nursery attack: The story of the three-year-old survivor (BBC News)

Three-year-old Emmy was found awake, curled up next to the bodies of her classmates.

We have to keep telling her the school is closed down. But many are also asking about the widespread availability of deadly weapons and the country's pervasive problem with drugs. She is the only child to live through the massacre in Nong Bua Lamphu on Thursday. "I feel very grateful that she survived. They then combed the other two classes, desperately hoping to find others alive. "She thought that her friends were still asleep.

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Thailand prays for child victims of day care massacre that left 36 ... (Sky News)

Coffins containing the victims were taken to Buddhist sites, which have been filled with toys, flowers and photographs of the smiling toddlers, ...

Coffins containing the victims were taken to the Buddhist sites, which had been filled with toys, flowers and photographs of the smiling toddlers, who were murdered as they slept in the gun and knife rampage by a former policeman. Coffins containing the victims were taken to Buddhist sites, which have been filled with toys, flowers and photographs of the smiling toddlers, who were murdered as they slept in the gun and knife rampage by a former policeman. Police have identified the perpetrator of the killing spree as Panya Kamrap, 34, a former police sergeant who was facing trial on a drugs charge. One of those was the youngest victim, two-year-old Pattarawat Jamnongnid, whose coffin was topped by a photograph of him in a pink American football shirt, along with a model dinosaur and a bottle of milk. At the Si Uthai temple, grieving relatives were joined by members of the devastated community to light candles and remember the dead. Hundreds of mourners have gathered at temples in Thailand to pray for the victims of the country's deadliest mass killing that left 36 people dead.

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BBM condoles with Indonesia, Thailand (The Manila Times)

PRESIDENT Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Saturday extended his condolences to the families of the victims of a deadly stampede in a football match in ...

"We condole deeply with the families of those lost in the recent tragedies of the Indonesia football stampede and the Thailand daycare attack," Marcos posted on Twitter. "We [the Filipino nation] pray for the recovery of the survivors, healing of those left behind, and that the departed may rest in peace," he added. on Saturday extended his condolences to the families of the victims of a deadly stampede in a football match in Indonesia and the mass killing at a daycare center in Thailand.

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PBBM expresses sympathy over tragedies in Indonesia, Thailand (manilastandard.net)

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday extended sympathy to the families of the victims of a deadly stampede that marred a football match in Indonesia ...

“We pray for the recovery of the survivors, healing of those left behind, and that the departed may rest in peace,” he added. on Saturday extended sympathy to the families of the victims of a deadly stampede that marred a football match in Indonesia and the mass killing at a daycare center in Thailand. “We condole deeply with the families of those lost in the recent tragedies of the Indonesia football stampede and the Thailand daycare attack,” Marcos posted on Twitter.

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Marcos condoles with Indonesia, Thailand families (Philstar.com)

President Marcos extended yesterday his condolences to the families of those who perished in the recent football stampede in Indonesia and the attack at a ...

The incident in Thailand involved a former policeman who killed at least 34 people, including 23 children, during a knife and gun attack on Thursday. “We pray for the recovery of the survivors, healing of those left behind and that the departed may rest in peace.” Hundreds of fans were crushed as they fled an overpacked Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java on Oct.

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Prayers sent: Marcos sympathizes with victims of tragedies in ... (Politiko)

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday (October 8) expressed sympathy for the victims of a deadly stampede in a football match in Indonesia and the mass ...

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Thailand massacre triggers king's appearance as opposition pounces (Nikkei Asia)

Not only was the death toll high at 37, but the fact that most victims were preschoolers has sent a chill through Thai society, prompting King Maha ...

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Thailand mourns after day care massacre; kin collapse, scream (Arkansas Online)

Relatives wailed and collapsed in grief before the small coffins of children Friday after a fired police officer stormed a rural Thai day care center at ...

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. By the time she returned, the children were dead. "As of now, the police assume that he became stressed because he was afraid that his wife would leave him," National police chief Gen. Across the country, flags were lowered to half-staff and schoolchildren said prayers to honor the dead, while at the site of the attack, about 85 miles from Laos, a stream of people, including Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, left flowers. At least 24 of the dead were children, mostly preschoolers.

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Toys and candles placed on coffins as victims of Thailand's ... (ABC News)

Hundreds of people have gathered in temples in north-east Thailand, offering candles, toys and prayers while farewelling more than 30 victims of a gun and ...

So he acted aggressively". Three monks chanted as a woman the network identified as his mother wept in front of a white coffin. In front of the daycare centre, people left toy flowers and toy trucks in an offering to the spirits of those killed. his family, his money and his legal cases. At the Si Uthai temple in the village of Uthai Sawan on Saturday, relatives and family of the victims joined the community to pay their respects. At just two years and 10 months, he was the youngest of the children killed but his mother said he already knew the alphabet.

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Girl, 3, survives Thailand nursery massacre unscathed after sleeping ... (Sky News)

Paweenuch Supolwong was sleeping deeply under a blanket as former police officer Panya Kamrap killed 36 people, including 24 children, at a nursery in Uthai ...

Nanticha Panchom, the teacher who runs the day care centre, was in the kitchen when she heard a shot fired outside. "It is to bring the spirit back into her body," her mother said. The couple moved to the Thai capital for work, leaving their three-year-old in their care of her grandmother, but made a panic-stricken journey back to the town after the attack. Mrs Srithong and her daughter attended a Buddhist temple service to pay their respects to the victims. Her best friend, who was sleeping next to her, was among the victims of the tragedy. She is believed to be the only person to escape uninjured after violence unfolded at a day care facility in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, in

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Marcos condoles with Indonesia, Thailand, prays for survivors (Politiko)

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expressed his condolences to the families of those killed in a stampede at an Indonesian football match and a mass killing at ...

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