At least one teacher was killed and several others wounded by a student who opened fire at a school in Thailand on Friday, Reuters reported authorities as saying.
Preliminary reports indicated two people had been killed and 15 were wounded, one critically, said Thailand’s Poh Teck Tung Foundation, a major rescue group.
“Officers are urgently evacuating students from the area,” the foundation said in a statement.
The shooting took place at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, a well-known secondary school of about 3,000 students, located on a busy highway in the Bang Kruai district of Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok.
Lt. Col. Dechrapee Kongdee, Nonthaburi Provincial Police Commander said the suspected gunman had killed himself, Reuters reported. Police had identified the perpetrator as a student.
