In the quiet outskirts of Bangkok, a 14-year-old boy transformed an ordinary Friday morning into one of Thailand's darkest days, carrying a licensed firearm from his grandparents' home to his school and leaving eight dead in his wake. The act — deliberate, planned, and still not fully understood — has forced a nation to reckon once again with the proximity of weapons to ordinary life and the pressures quietly accumulating inside young minds. Thailand, a country with one of Southeast Asia's highest rates of private gun ownership, now faces the familiar and painful question of what systems faile
Thai teen kills grandparents, five at school in nation's worst mass shooting since 2022
Eight people killed (two grandparents, three teachers, two school administrators, the shooter) and 23 students and staff wounded in the attack.
Crime & Justice