Thailand nursery attack

Bangkok, Oct 8 (EFE).- Buddhist funeral rites began on Saturday in Thailand's northeastern province of Nong Bua Lamphu for victims of the nursery massacre ...

“I offer you my condolences and hope you will stay strong so that the spirits of the children can be at ease. It’s a time of grief and sorrow,” the king said in footage released online after the visit. On top of each casket sat a photograph of the child or adult inside.

Fast asleep in the corner of the room, three-year-old Ammy escaped the notice of the gunman. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"She thought her friends were still asleep. "She is still a happy girl," said Ms Panomphat. Ammy has been evaluated by a mental health specialist who said that the girl appeared to be fine, and was still her bubbly self. A police officer covered her face with a cloth and carried her away from all the blood." "She knows that one of her friends, who is her best friend, has died," said Ms Panomphat, who also has a son aged 10. "Someone told me that all the children had died," she said on Saturday as Ammy, wearing a religious amulet around her neck, sat quietly in her arms.

Now his parents Sujittra Pornikhom and Satthaporn Songserm and their family are left to mourn in a house filled with memories of their little boy. “I keep ...

When I first saw his face I was really happy,” she told AFP. “I cannot believe that was the last time I spoke to him,” he said, his voice shaking. “I asked him what he wanted for his birthday this year,” Satthaporn said, on the Wednesday evening before the attack. “He would play all day,” said father Satthaporn, 31, the anguish in his voice clear as he described how his son would play with anyone and “anything”. Signs of him are everywhere, from the toys to the scuff marks along the walls made by him and his friends, to the unmade bed upstairs that he shared with his grandmother Banyan. “When I was pregnant all I wanted to see was his face.

Three-year-old Emmy was napping next to her best friend at a day-care centre in northern Thailand when the attacker broke in, armed with a gun and a knife.

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. Emmy's mother, 35-year-old Panompai Srithong, works in Bangkok during the week. They then combed the other two classes, desperately hoping to find others alive. "She thought that her friends were still asleep.