Flowers and pictures of teachers and school officials killed are left outside Debsirin Nonthaburi School following a deadly shooting at the school, in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, Tuesday. Reuters-Yonhap
NONTHABURI, Thailand — Thailand's prime minister said Tuesday he had suspended firearms licences after last week's deadly school shooting, as the bodies of the teenage assailant and the grandparents he killed were cremated.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he had ordered the interior ministry and police to stop issuing licenses to possess, purchase and carry firearms, and called for "tighter controls and decisive penalties."
On Friday, a 14-year-old boy shot dead the grandparents who raised him at their home in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok, before killing six others at his school and then turning the gun on himself.
The white caskets of the couple were laid out at the Tem Rak Samakkhi Buddhist temple on Tuesday, alongside their portraits, ahead of their cremation capping a funeral lasting several days.
