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BANG KRUAI: A teenage Thai student killed five people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, in the Southeast Asian nation’s worst mass killing in nearly four years.
Those killed at the school were all teachers and staff, and police said the 14-year-old shooter fired 26 bullets using a gun that belonged to his grandfather. An additional 34 rounds were found.
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.
Police said 23 people were wounded in the incident, the latest in a succession of mass shootings in recent years in Thailand, which has by far the largest number of guns in civilian possession in Southeast Asia, and among the most per capita in Asia.
