22 kids killed

A former police officer killed 34 people including 22 children in a mass shooting at a daycare centre in eastern Thailand today, later killing his wife and ...

"It's a scene that nobody wants to see. Thailand's police chief said the perpetrator had tried to break into the premises and had mostly used a knife in the killings. A Reuters photographer also saw th ebody of the shooter, Panya Khamrapm, being moved in a bodybag from a van to a police station in the province. The man had been in court earlier in the day and had then gone to the daycare centre to collect his child, police spokesperson Paisal Luesomboon told broadcaster ThaiPBS. The age range of children at the daycare centre was from two to five years, a local official told Reuters. In one of the world's worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history, most of the children who died at the daycare centre in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 km northeast of Bangkok, were stabbed to death, police said.

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.

At least 36 people died, including 22 children, when former police officer Panya Khamrab opened fire at a day care center in northern Thailand on Thursday, ...

After the shooting, Khamrab hit people with his vehicle and fired shots on the street as he fled the scene, according to the Royal Thai Police. Earlier in the day before the shooting, Khamrab had been in court on the drug charge that he was fired from the police force over, according to the Royal Thai Police. Once he arrived at his home, he killed his wife and child before he killed himself, police said.

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. At least two more ...

The rate of firearms related deaths in 2019 was about 4 per 100,000, compared with "I feel deep sadness toward the victims and their relatives." It was allegedly carried out by human traffickers in retaliation for a crackdown on their network. "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. Paisal said he also had a shotgun and a knife. 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." Police identified the attacker as 34-year-old former police officer Panya Kamrap. One image showed the floor smeared with blood where sleeping mats were scattered around the room. 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. 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. At least two more children were killed elsewhere.

According to local media reports, Panya Khamrab who has been identified as the shooter has died. He reportedly drove back to his house after his shooting ...

About 30 children were at the centre when the gunman came in around lunchtime, Boonsom added. At least 34 people including 22 children were murdered in a mass shooting in the northeastern province of Thailand, reports Reuters. The gunman first shot four or five staff, including a teacher who was eight months pregnant, district official Jidapa Boonsom told Reuters adding that people initially thought the gunfire sound was just fireworks.

A former policeman killed 37 persons, including 22 children, in a knife-and-gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand on Thursday.

The police said the attacker was a former member of the force who was dismissed from his post last year over drug allegations and he was facing trial. Gun laws are strict in Thailand, where possession of an illegal firearm carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. The massacre is among the worst involving children killed by one person. “The shooter came in around lunch time and shot four or five officials at the centre first,” Jidapa said. The age range of children was from two to five years, a local official said. He later shot dead his wife and child at their home before turning his weapon on himself, the police said, identifying the suspect as 34-year-old Panya Kamrap.