Seven ‌people were killed ​in a school shooting ​in ⁠Thailand on ‌Friday, ‌including ​the ⁠gunman, and 15 ​people ​were ‌wounded, Thai police said. The shooting took place at a school in Nonthaburi, on the northwestern outskirts of Bangkok, according to Royal Thai Police spokesman Trairong Phiwphan. He said casualty figures remained fluid as authorities responded to the attack, with several people suffering “serious injuries.”The gunman was reported to be a student. One 18-year-old student at the school said he initially thought there ​were firecrackers going off or ​someone banging an object.“I didn’t think it was a ‌gun at first,” he said, “There ​were many shots: bang bang bang. Then it went quiet. ⁠Then it started again.”Photos ⁠circulated by ​emergency workers showed students streaming out of the school. In one photo, one person is seen lying down on a stretcher outside an ambulance, while another is attended to by a medic.Thailand has one of Southeast Asia’s highest rates of civilian gun ownership, and gun violence is more common than in many neighboring countries. School shootings, however, remain relatively rare.The country has experienced several high-profile mass shootings in recent years, including a 2020 attack by a soldier in a Nakhon Ratchasima mall that killed about 30 people, a 2022 attack on a daycare center that killed dozens of children, and a shooting at Bangkok’s Siam Paragon shopping mall in 2023 that left three people dead. - Bloomberg