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MASS Shooting: Ex-Police Officer Kills 37+ in Thailand Pre-School
At Least 37 Killed in Thailand MASS Shooting
Gunman murders at least 37 in Thai nursery attack
BBC News 7 OCT 2022.
At least 37 people including 22 children have been killed in a mass shooting at a day care in Northern Thailand.
The attacker has been identified as an ex-police officer and was reportedly armed with a shotgun and a knife.
The children were sleeping in a locked room when the attack occurred.
A former police officer shot dead at least 37 people, most of them children, when he stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday in one of the kingdom's deadliest mass killings.
Following the attack, gunman Panya Khamrab went home and killed his wife and child before taking his own life, police said.
Armed with a shotgun, pistol and knife, Panya opened fire on the childcare centre in northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province at about 12:30 ptch?v=oplElpdIgMUm (0530 GMT).
National Police Chief Damrongsak Kittiprapat told a news conference the gunman killed 37 people, including 23 children and his own family, and wounded 12 others.
Nanthicha Punchum, acting chief of the nursery, described harrowing scenes as the attacker barged into the building.
"There were some staff eating lunch outside the nursery and the attacker parked his car and shot four of them dead," she told AFP.
"The shooter smashed down the door with his leg and then came inside and started slashing the children's heads with a knife."
Footage after the incident showed distraught parents weeping in a shelter outside the nursery, a yellow single-storey building set in a garden.
The 34-year-old gunman was a former police sergeant suspended in January and sacked in June for drug use
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