On a Friday morning in Nonthaburi province, a fourteen-year-old student carried a legally registered firearm into Debsirin Nonthaburi School and opened fire, killing five staff members and wounding dozens of children before taking his own life — a violence that had begun earlier that morning with the deaths of his own grandparents. By Saturday, a twelve-year-old girl who had survived the initial attack succumbed to her wounds, bringing the toll to eight lives lost. The tragedy arrives at a moment when Thailand, a nation with one of Asia's highest rates of civilian gun ownership, is being force
Bangkok school shooting death toll reaches eight as wounded girl dies in hospital
Eight people killed including five school staff, the 14-year-old shooter, his two grandparents, and a 12-year-old student; 14 others hospitalized with seven in critical condition, mostly children aged 12-14.