In the quiet corridors of a school northwest of Bangkok, a fourteen-year-old boy carried his grandfather's gun into a place meant for learning, and left nine people dead — among them a twelve-year-old girl who survived the initial chaos only to succumb to her wounds a day later. The tragedy at Debsirin Nonthaburi is not an isolated rupture but the latest in a pattern that has shadowed Thailand for years, a nation that holds the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in Southeast Asia and has yet to find a way to interrupt the cycle. A prime minister's pledge of new legislation echoes promises
Thailand school shooting death toll reaches nine as 12-year-old succumbs to injuries
Nine people killed including a 12-year-old girl and 14-year-old shooter; over 30 wounded with 14 hospitalized, seven in critical condition.