IN BRIEFEducation minister says both teachers and students are among the dead.This is Thailand's second school shooting this year.A teenage suspect killed his grandparents before shooting dead at least six more people at a school near Bangkok on Friday, police said.First, he shot dead his grandparents, using his grandfather's handgun, then went to a secondary school north of Bangkok and killed three teachers and three students, national police said in a statement.Dozens of police and emergency responders gathered outside the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province on Friday, while parents raced to pick up their children and tearful students and staff comforted each other outside."I was afraid that I would die, and I was scared that I wouldn't be able to pursue my dreams," said Pawarisa Maylissa, a grade 12 student who hopes to attend medical school."I heard many gunshots very loudly because it seemed the suspect was on the floor directly above us. I could even hear bullets hitting the floor."News that makes senseYour trusted source for staying up-to-date with the world around you. Get free daily news updates and analysis, straight to your inbox.Fifteen injured students were not struck by gunfire but hurt as they were trying to flee, deputy interior minister Polapee Suwunchwee told local broadcaster Thai PBS.The shooter was identified as a teenage student of the school and also reported dead, according to local media reports citing authorities.An injured person is carried on a stretcher outside the school in Thailand's Nonthaburi province. Source: AP / Por Tek Tueng NonthaburiOne 18-year-old student told the Reuters news agency 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."Second school shooting in 2026Some reports said police officers had shot and killed the suspect, while others said he had died by suicide."It's such a terrible incident. It should never have happened. How could this happen in our country?" Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters at Bangkok's Government House.Photos published by local media show the suspect wearing a purple school uniform and carrying a black cross-body bag, with several bullet casings visible on the ground.It is the second school shooting in Thailand this year after a teacher died and a student was injured in the south of the country in February.Thailand has seen a series of deadly shootings in the past six years, with children among the victims. Source: AP / Sakchai LalitEmergency worker Kiatikhun Verapongpradith, 47, described arriving as the shooting was ongoing and his team treated students with injuries in the back, chest and arms. They found a male teacher lying dead on an upper floor of the school, and in another room they found a female teacher with wounds in her chest and arm."We gave CPR for about 30 minutes and rushed her to the hospital as we could not get her heart rate up, but we tried our best," he said.In the 2025 academic year, the school had an enrollment of around 3,100 students and 147 teachers, according to district authorities.Deputy education minister Akkharanan Kannakittinan said in a statement he was coordinating to provide assistance.History of shootingsGun ownership and gun violence are not uncommon in Thailand, which has seen a series of deadly shootings in the past six years, with children among the victims.Thailand's worst mass killing by a single perpetrator in its recent history took place in 2022, when a former policeman ran amok in a three-hour gun-and-knife attack in the northeast that killed 36 people including 22 children stabbed as they slept at a daycare centre.A gunman killed five people including security guards and a vendor at a Bangkok market in July 2025 before turning the gun on himself, while a teacher died in the southern city of Hat Yai in February this year when a shooter opened fire at a school where she worked.In 2020, a soldier killed 29 people in a shooting rampage in Nakhon Ratchasima. And in 2023, a 14-year-old used a modified handgun to kill two people and wound five others at a luxury Bangkok shopping centre.For the latest from SBS News, download our app and subscribe to our newsletter.