In the quiet corridors of a school northwest of Bangkok, a fourteen-year-old turned a legally registered firearm against the people around him, killing five staff members, his own grandparents, and at least two students before taking his own life — a toll that rose to eight on Saturday when a twelve-year-old girl succumbed to her wounds. The act has shaken a nation that rarely confronts this particular form of violence, even as it carries one of Asia's highest rates of civilian gun ownership. Thailand now faces the grief that comes not only from loss, but from the unsettling recognition that t
Thailand school shooting death toll reaches 8 as wounded girl succumbs to injuries
At least eight people killed including five school staff, two grandparents, and one 12-year-old student; fourteen hospitalized with seven in critical condition; most victims were children aged 12-14.