Thailand gunman kills family and self after nursery shooting: Police
October 6, 2022, 3:04 pm

Thailand gunman kills family and self after nursery shooting - Police - Photo. Pixabay

Thai police said “A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on October 6, shooting dead at least 30 people including children before killing himself and his family,”.

“The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened fire on the childcare centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu province at about 12.30 p.m. (0530 GMT) before fleeing the scene in a vehicle,” the force said.

“The death toll from the shooting incident… is at least 30 people,” Anucha Burapachaisri, a spokesman for the Thai Prime Minister’s office, said.

Police colonel Jakkapat Vijitraithaya, from the province where the attack happened, identified the gunman as Panya Khamrab, a police lieutenant colonel he said was dismissed from the force last year for drug use. Jakkapat said there were 23 children among the dead, aged two to three years old.

In 2020, in one of the Thailand’s deadliest incidents in recent years, a soldier gunned down 29 people in a 17-hour rampage and wounded scores more before he was shot dead by commandos - Photo. Pixabay

The mass killing comes less than a month after a serving army officer shot dead two colleagues at a military training base in the capital Bangkok. While Thailand has high rates of gun ownership, mass shootings are extremely rare.

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The Bangkok Post said that in the past year, there have been at least two other cases of shooting murders by serving soldiers.

In 2020, in one of the Thailand’s deadliest incidents in recent years, a soldier gunned down 29 people in a 17-hour rampage and wounded scores more before he was shot dead by commandos.

Source: g7tamil

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