WorldA Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a ‌school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the Southeast Asian nation's worst mass killing since 2022.Police say suspected shooter, 14, is among the deadThomson Reuters · Posted: Aug 07, 2026 8:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Friends of an injured school teacher, who had been carried into the ambulance, embrace Friday in the wake of the shooting at Thailand's Nonthaburi province. (Wason Wanichakorn/The Associated Press)A Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a ‌school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the Southeast Asian nation's worst mass killing since 2022. Those killed at the school were all teachers and staff and police said the 14-year-old shooter, a student, fired at least 26 bullets using a gun that belonged to his grandfather. Police said 23 people were injured.Students streamed out of the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the capital's northwestern outskirts, as the wounded were loaded on to ambulances and teachers hugged each other and cried. In photos circulated by emergency workers, one person is seen lying down on a stretcher outside an ambulance, while another is attended to ​by a medic.One 18-year-old student told Reuters 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."Lt.-Gen. Trairong Phophan, a spokesman for the National Police, told Reuters ⁠the suspected shooter was among the seven ⁠people killed at the school. Fifteen people were injured, he added.Thai PM expresses condolencesEducation Minister Prasert ‌Jantararuangtong told Reuters that both teachers and students were among the casualties. Police identified the perpetrator as a student. 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.Police stand outside the home of the student suspected of shooting several people. (Sakchai Lalit/The Associated Press)Emergency 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.He said he was called to treat the teenage shooter after hearing a final shot."We rushed up and found that the perpetrator had shot himself in the right side of the head and collapsed. When we got up there, we checked ‌his pulse, he still had one, so we started CPR."The suspect was then taken to the hospital, he said.In the 2025 academic year, the school had an enrolment of around 3,100 students and 147 teachers, according to district authorities."This is terrible for something like this to happen," Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters. "I'm sad for those who died and sad for something like this to happen in our country."Gun 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.After a 2023 shooting in which a 14-year-old used a modified handgun to kill two people and wound ​five others at a luxury Bangkok shopping centre, Thailand ordered a raft of gun control measures, including a short-term ban on new licences, import restrictions and banning of people under 20 years from shooting ranges.Longer-term measures also included a medical certificate assessing the mental health and psychological condition of gun owners as well as a specified validity period for some gun licenses.Thailand had an estimated 10.3 million firearms in civilian possession, equating to around 15 guns per 100 residents, the highest rate in Southeast Asia by a wide margin, according to a 2017 estimate by the Small ⁠Arms Survey.