Families retrieve bodies after deadly shooting rampage outside Bangkok

Thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Asia. Families have retrieved the bodies of their loved ones a day after a mass shooting at a school and a home outside Bangkok , as a 12-year-old girl died in hospital, raising the death toll to nine, including the teenage shooter. A 14-year-old schoolboy opened fire at about 10am local time (03:00 GMT) on Friday at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Bang Kruai district, Nonthaburi province, northwest of the Thai capital, before taking his own life. According to officials, the boy appeared to have killed his two grandparents at their home earlier in the morning. All eight bodies – five school staff members, the alleged attacker and his grandparents – were collected by early Saturday afternoon from Bangkok’s Institute of Forensic Medicine.

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