Teacher killed, four injured in Thailand school shooting; student gunman dies

At a school on the northwestern edge of Bangkok, a student opened fire on a Thursday morning, killing a teacher and wounding four others before taking his own life — leaving behind the silence that follows violence in places built for learning. The attack at Debsirin Nonthaburi School is the second such incident at a Thai educational institution in 2026 alone, echoing a pattern that stretches back to the mass killing of children in Nong Bua Lamphu in 2022. No motive has been offered, no policy response announced — only the familiar machinery of emergency response, and the harder, slower questi