Thailand school shooting: eight killed including suspected attacker, police say
Teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at school near Bangkok, where more than 30 were wounded A Thai teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at his school, where he shot five people dead and took his own life, police have said, in an attack that has shaken a country struggling to deal with gun violence. The 14-year-old wounded more than 30 people in the shooting at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school northwest of Bangkok. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said. For Prompong Namwong, an English teacher at the school, it was a normal morning until a panicked student from another class flung open the door, trying to find somewhere to hide. In the corridor, Prompong heard other teachers shouting that there had been a mass shooting downstairs.
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The country’s licensing regime still lacks mental health screening for people applying to have a gun and does not require periodic reassessments for licence holders, according to Piyaporn Tunneekul, an associate professor at Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University in Thailand.
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Teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at school near Bangkok, where 22 others were wounded Thailand school shooting – latest updates A Thai teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at his school, where he shot five people dead and took his own life, police have said, in an attack that has shaken a country struggling to deal with gun violence. Police said the 14-year-old had wounded another 22 people in the school shooting on the outskirts of Bangkok on Friday morning. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said. The suspected attacker fired at least 26 bullets with a gun belonging to his grandfather, and was found with 34 additional ammunition rounds. Police also said the teenager had killed his grandparents before the attack at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school in the Bang Kruai district of Nonthaburi province.
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Teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at school near Bangkok, where 22 others were wounded A Thai teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at his school, where he shot five people dead and took his own life, police have said, in an attack that has shaken a country struggling to deal with gun violence. The 14-year-old wounded more than 30 people in the shooting at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school in the Nonthaburi province on Bangkok’s outskirts. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said. For Prompong Namwong, an English teacher at the school, it was a normal morning until a panicked student from another class flung open the door, trying to find somewhere to hide. In the corridor, Namwong heard other teachers shouting that there had been a mass shooting downstairs.
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Teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at school near Bangkok, where more than 30 were wounded A Thai teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at his school, where he shot five people dead and took his own life, police have said, in an attack that has shaken a country struggling to deal with gun violence. The 14-year-old wounded more than 30 people in the shooting at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school in the Nonthaburi province on Bangkok’s outskirts. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said. For Prompong Namwong, an English teacher at the school, it was a normal morning until a panicked student from another class flung open the door, trying to find somewhere to hide. In the corridor, Prompong heard other teachers shouting that there had been a mass shooting downstairs.
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Teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at school near Bangkok, where more than 30 were wounded A Thai teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at his school, where he shot five people dead and took his own life, police have said, in an attack that has shaken a country struggling to deal with gun violence. The 14-year-old wounded more than 30 people in the shooting at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school northwest of Bangkok. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said. For Prompong Namwong, an English teacher at the school, it was a normal morning until a panicked student from another class flung open the door, trying to find somewhere to hide. In the corridor, Prompong heard other teachers shouting that there had been a mass shooting downstairs.
