On a Friday morning in Nonthaburi province, northwest of Bangkok, a fourteen-year-old student turned a legally registered firearm against his grandparents, then his classmates and teachers, before taking his own life — an act that claimed eight lives in total, including a twelve-year-old girl who succumbed to her wounds the following day. The gun had belonged to his grandfather, and the grief now belongs to an entire nation. Thailand, which carries one of Asia's highest rates of civilian gun ownership, finds itself once again confronting the question of how violence so young and so sudden beco
Thailand school shooting death toll reaches 8 as wounded girl succumbs to injuries
Eight people killed including five school staff, two grandparents, and a 12-year-old student; 14 others hospitalized with seven in critical condition; most victims were children aged 12-14.