On a Friday morning in Nonthaburi province, just outside Bangkok, a fourteen-year-old student turned a weapon on his classmates and teachers at one of Thailand's most storied schools, killing at least two and wounding fifteen before ending his own life. The tragedy at Debsirin School — an institution founded by royalty and long associated with the nation's highest aspirations — forces a reckoning with a familiar and painful paradox: a country with strict gun laws yet one of the region's highest rates of civilian ownership. This is not Thailand's first such wound in recent memory, and the silen
School shooting near Bangkok leaves at least two dead; suspect student found dead
At least two people killed and 15 injured in the school shooting; the shooter, a 14-year-old ninth-grade student, died by suicide.