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Thailand Shooting: "There are at least 34 dead but details were still coming in," Deputy Police spokesperson Archon Kraitong said. | World News.

[World News](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news)along with [Latest News](https://www.hindustantimes.com/latest-news)from [India](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news)at Hindustan Times. [At least 34 people were](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/thailand-shooting-thailand-shooting-news-thailand-shooting-updates-dozens-killed-in-thailand-shooting-at-child-centre-what-we-know-on-the-gunman-101665044208532.html) killed on Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's day-care centre in a northeastern province of Thailand, a police spokesperson said. [34 including children dead in Thailand daycare centre shooting: 5 points](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/thailand-shooting-thailand-shooting-today-thailand-shooting-updates-20-dead-including-children-in-thailand-daycare-centre-shooting-5-points-101665042782761.html)

At least 36 people were killed in a mass shooting in a northeastern province of Thailand on Thursday, police said.

According to sources, the gunman was an ex-police officer. Some people can be seen escorting the injured ones to the ambulance. In a video circulating on the internet, families of victims can be seen mourning the deaths of their loved ones.

Victims included both children and adults, police said in a statement, adding that the gunman was an ex-police officer and a manhunt was underway.

The rate of firearms related deaths in 2019 was about 4 per 100,000, compared with about 11 per 100,000 in the U.S. Police have not given a full breakdown of the death toll, but they have said at least 22 children and two adults were killed at the day care. rate of 120.5 per 100 people, according to a 2017 survey by Australia’s GunPolicy.org nonprofit organization. and nearly 23 per 100,000 in Brazil. Paisal said he also had a shotgun and a knife. Mass shootings are rare but not unheard of in Thailand, which has one of the highest civilian gun ownership rates in Asia, with 15.1 weapons per 100 population compared to only 0.3 in Singapore and 0.25 in Japan. In footage posted online after the attack, frantic family members could be heard weeping outside the building, and one image showed the floor of a room smeared with blood where sleeping mats were scattered. A witness said staff at the day care locked the door when they saw the assailant approaching with a gun, but he shot his way in. At least two more children were killed elsewhere. In a Facebook posting, Thai police chief Gen. Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old former police officer Panya Kamrap. “I didn’t think he would kill

An official said that the gunman killed his wife and child and himself during the shooting and said at least 12 people were injured in addition to the 34 ...

The assailant, who authorities said was fired from the force earlier this year because of a drug offense, took his own life after killing his own wife and ...

We are still investigating all of this and have to learn from it, he said. Police Maj Gen Paisal Luesomboon told PPTV in an interview that he was fired from the force earlier this year because of drug-related offenses. 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. Here's where the guns in US came from](/article/international/22-mass-shootings-374-dead-here-s-where-the-guns-in-us-came-from-122052800043_1.html) [2 killed in mass shooting in Norway; more than a dozen hurt, says police](/article/international/2-killed-in-mass-shooting-in-norway-more-than-a-dozen-hurt-says-police-122062500158_1.html) [1 dead, 5 people wounded after mass shooting in Northeast Washington](/article/international/us-mass-shooting-in-washington-multiple-people-reported-dead-122080200166_1.html) [3 dead, 1 injured after another shooting incident in Maryland rocks US](/article/international/3-dead-1-injured-after-another-shooting-incident-in-maryland-rocks-us-122061000086_1.html) At least 24 of the dead were children, mostly preschoolers. [Mass shooting wave rattles communities large and small in US: Report](/article/international/mass-shooting-wave-rattles-communities-large-and-small-in-us-report-122041900025_1.html) [22 mass shootings.

Thailand Mass Shooting थाईलैंड में सामूहिक गोलीबारी में कम से कम 34 लोगों की मौत हो गई है।

बैंकॉक, एजेंसी। थाईलैंड में सामूहिक गोलीबारी में कम से कम 34 लोगों की मौत हो गई है। एक पुलिस प्रवक्ता ने बताया है कि ये गोलीबारी देश के पूर्वोत्तर प्रांत में हुई है। पुलिस प्रवक्ता के अनुसार, गुरुवार को थाईलैंड के पूर्वोत्तर प्रांत में एक बाल देखभाल केंद्र (Child Care center) में सामूहिक गोलीबारी में कम से कम 34 लोग मारे गए हैं। एक सरकारी प्रवक्ता ने बताया कि प्रधानमंत्री ने सभी एजेंसियों को कार्रवाई करने और अपराधी को पकड़ने के लिए सतर्क कर दिया है। थाईलैंड में बंदूक के स्वामित्व की दर इस क्षेत्र के कुछ अन्य देशों की तुलना में अधिक है। Thailand Mass Shooting थाईलैंड में सामूहिक गोलीबारी में कम से कम 34 लोगों की मौत हो गई है। एक पुलिस प्रवक्ता ने बताया है कि ये गोलीबारी देश के पूर्वोत्तर प्रांत में हुई है। कई लोगों के घायल होने की भी खबर सामने आ रही है।

यह मास शुटिंग एक पूर्व पुलिस अधिकारी द्वारा की गई। थाइलैंड के उत्तर-पूर्व में नोंग बुआ ...

Thailand Mass Shooting: थाईलैंड में चाइल्ड सेंटर पर पूर्व पुलिसकर्मी की अंधाधुंध फायरिंग में कम ...

2020 में, एक संपत्ति सौदे से नाराज एक सैनिक ने भी ऐसे ही फायरिंग की घटना को अंजाम दिया था. यह जानकारी एक पुलिस प्रवक्ता ने दी है. एक पूर्व पुलिस कर्मचारी ने चिल्ड्रन्स डे केयर सेंटर में ताबड़तोड़ फायरिंग कर दी.

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

थाईलैंड का पूर्वोत्तर प्रांत गुरुवार को गोलियों की आवाज से गूंज उठा. यहां एक सामूहिक ...

बताया रहा है कि थाईलैंड में 34 लोगों को मारने के बाद शख्स ने खुद को भी गोली मार ली है. ऐसे में गंभीर रूप से घायल लोगों की स्थिति नाजुक बनी हुई है. पुलिस उप प्रवक्ता आर्कोन क्रेटोंग ने विदेशी मीडिया से बात करते हुए बताया, 'कम से कम 34 लोग मारे गए हैं, लेकिन विवरण अभी भी आ रहे हैं.'

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.

Thailand Daycare Centre Shooting: The gunman shot his wife and child dead at their home before killing himself, Thailand police said. | World News.

The gunman later shot his wife and child dead at their home before killing himself, Thailand police said. Police said that the attacker was a former member of the force and was dismissed owing to drug allegations. [World News](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news)along with [Latest News](https://www.hindustantimes.com/latest-news)from [India](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news)at Hindustan Times. [shooting](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/thailand-mass-shooting-thailand-shooting-thailand-shooting-news-children-as-young-as-2-among-victims-in-shocking-thailand-mass-shooting-101665047147714.html), the police said that the man had gone to the daycare centre to take his child home but when he could not find his child there, he began the rampage. [Thailand ex-cop](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/thailand-shooting-thailand-shooting-news-thailand-shooting-updates-dozens-killed-in-thailand-shooting-at-child-centre-what-we-know-on-the-gunman-101665044208532.html) killed 38 people, including 22 children, in a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand on Thursday. Thailand Daycare Centre Shooting: The gunman shot his wife and child dead at their home before killing himself, Thailand police said.

North-east region preschool centre attacked by gunman who also killed himself and his family.

“I thought that it was a firecracker, then when I looked out of the window, I saw people on the floor. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in June of “extreme volumes of methamphetamine” being produced, trafficked and used in south-east Asia. Another teacher told the channel that she was on the phone when she heard a loud bang. The children, aged between two and four years old, were sleeping at the time, she said. Police said most of the children killed at the centre were stabbed to death. Thailand’s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, who is expected to visit Nong Bua Lamphu on Friday, said in a statement on Facebook that he offered his deepest condolences to the families of the victims.

Thailand shooting: डे केयर सेंटर में फायरिंग करने से पहले थाईलैंड का गनमैन अदालत में ड्रग केस ...

ब्रिटेन की प्रधानमंत्री लिज़ ट्रस (Liz Truss) ने कहा कि वह इस भयानक वारदात के बारे में सुनकर सदमे में है. इस देश की तुलना में म्यांमार, जिसकी आबादी 54 मिलियन है, के पास लगभग 870,000 आग्नेयास्त्र (Firearms) हैं. चाइल्ड डे केयर सेंटर हमले को अंजाम देने से घंटों पहले ड्रग्स के आरोप में अदालत में पेश हुआ था. थाईलैंड की पुलिस (Thailand Police) के मुताबिक सामूहिक गोलीबारी से पहले गनमैन अदालत में उस पर चल रहे ड्रग केस का सामना करने लिए कोर्ट गया था. थाई पुलिस का कहना है कि उसे जनवरी में मेथामफेटामाइन (Methamphetamine) रखने के लिए पुलिस बल से बर्खास्त कर दिया गया था. Thailand Mass Shooting: उत्तर-पूर्वी थाईलैंड में गुरुवार (6 अक्टूबर ) को नॉन्ग बुआ लाम्फू प्रांत के (Nong Bua Lamphu province) चाइल्ड डे केयर सेंटर में ताबड़तोड़ फायरिंग करने वाला गनमैन की पहचान हो गई है.

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.

After killing several people at the day care centre at Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand, the attacker, Panya Khamrab shot himself, his wife and his child at around 3 p.m. local time. AP. A former policeman, Panya Khamrab opened fire at a children's day care ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). While eyewitnesses said, they also saw the shooter brandishing a knife. ET hereby disclaims any and all warranties, express or implied, relating to the report and any content therein. He then departed. Around 24 children, some as young as two years old, have been killed in the incident, the reports said. According to Nong Bua Lamphu and Na

An official said that the gunman killed his wife and child and himself during the shooting.

A district official Jidapa Boonsom said that he first shot four or five staff, including a teacher who was eight months pregnant. He was reportedly discharged from the police force last year. The gunman reportedly opened fire early in the afternoon in the centre of the town of Nongbua Lamphu.

Photos taken by first responders showed the school's floor littered with the tiny bodies of children still on their blankets, where they had been taking an ...

The rate of firearms related deaths in 2019 was about 4 per 100,000, compared with about 11 per 100,000 in the U.S. It was allegedly carried out by human traffickers in retaliation for a crackdown on their network. and nearly 23 per 100,000 in Brazil. Photos taken by first responders showed the school's floor littered with the tiny bodies of children still on their blankets, where they had been taking an afternoon nap. Paisal said he also had a shotgun and a knife. At least two more children were killed elsewhere. One image showed the floor smeared with blood where sleeping mats were scattered around the room. “The teacher who died, she had a child in her arms,” the witness, whose name wasn’t given, told Thailand’s Kom Chad Luek television. Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old former police officer Panya Kamrap. A teacher told public broadcaster Thai PBS that the assailant got out of a car and immediately shot a man, eating lunch outside, then fired more shots. “The children were two or three years old.” A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center Thursday in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled.

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Thailand shooting: In one of the worst mass killings in recent history, a gunman killed 34 people including 22 children at a daycare centre in Thailand.

– Gun laws are quite strict in Thailand. – In June 2021, a former soldier fired gunshots in a – Just 10 days after that mass shooting, a man killed his ex-wife and wounded another person at a shopping centre in Bangkok.

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.

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.”

Many relatives were gathered in front of the child care centre to start the process of claiming compensation and psychologists were also sent to the site to ...

Photos showed slashes to the victims’ faces and gunshots to their heads. In footage posted online after the attack, frantic family members wept outside the building. “He came to do what he had in his mind and was determined to do it. Nearly 60 others were wounded in that attack. “All Australians send their love and condolences,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tweeted. And we all felt this across the community very quickly. The children, mainly two and three-year-olds, had been taking an afternoon nap, and photos taken by first responders showed their tiny bodies still lying on blankets. Seven of the 10 people who were wounded were still hospitalised on Friday. They are running through my heart,” said Seksan Sriraj, 28, whose pregnant wife was a teacher at the centre and was due to give birth this month. “My wife and my child have gone to a peaceful place. He had been due to appear in court on Friday. I am alive and will have to live.

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.

BANGKOK, Oct 6: A former policeman burst into a day care centre in northeastern Thailand today, killing dozens of children and teachers and then firing on ...

“We are still investigating all of this and have to learn from it,” he said. Police Maj Gen Paisal Luesomboon said in an interview that he was fired from the force earlier this year because of drug-related offenses. “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 24 of the dead were children, mostly preschoolers. Police have not given a full breakdown of the death toll, but they have said at least 22 children and two adults were killed at the day care in the northeastern Thai town of Nongbua Lamphu. At least 37 people were killed in the attack, according to police spokesman Archayon Kraithong.

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 attack took place in Nongbua Lamphu province in northeastern Thailand. Advertisement. A man opened fire at a daycare centre in Thailand's Uthai Sawan town ...

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida are scheduled to visit the wounded as well. Psychologists were on site to assist the bereaved. His mother told the police that her son had gone to the court for a hearing in a drug-related case on Thursday morning, reported Bangkok Post. “The shooter smashed down the door with his leg and then came inside…,” she added. Police identified the shooter as Panya Khamrab, a former police sergeant who was suspended in January 2022 on drug use charges, reported Thailand-based Bangkok Post. He was reportedly armed with a 9 mm pistol and a knife.

Friends hugged sobbing family members struggling with staggering loss on Friday in a rural northeastern Thailand community mourning the children and other ...

Photos showed slashes to the victims' faces and gunshots to their heads. In footage posted online after the attack, frantic family members wept outside the building. Most of us are feeling depressed and sad because they are our children," he said. "All Australians send their love and condolences," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tweeted. The children, mainly two and three-year-olds, had been taking an afternoon nap, and photos taken by first responders showed their tiny bodies still lying on blankets. Seven of the 10 people who were wounded were still hospitalised on Friday. They are running through my heart," said Seksan Sriraj, 28, whose pregnant wife was a teacher at the centre and was due to give birth this month. My wife and my child have gone to a peaceful place. And we all felt this across the community very quickly. Police speculated the gunman targeted the centre because it was near his home. They identified him as Panya Kamrap, 34, a former police sergeant fired earlier this year because of a drug charge involving methamphetamine. I am alive and will have to live.