In a province just outside Bangkok, a fourteen-year-old boy carried his grandfather's handgun into his school on a Friday and left eight people dead — including his own grandparents, a twelve-year-old girl who loved to dance, and five teachers — before ending his own life. Investigators are tracing a path through online violent content, academic pressure, and the quiet suffering of bullying, searching for the shape of a tragedy that communities around the world have come to recognize with dread. Thailand, a country with an estimated ten million firearms in circulation, now faces once again the
Thailand mourns 12-year-old girl killed in school shooting as investigators seek motive
Eight people killed including a 12-year-old girl and five teachers; dozens of students and families traumatized; community gathered for ceremonial mourning.