An ex-police officer killed 34 people with a rifle on Thursday, including 22 childrenin a nursery in the town of Uthai Sawan, in northeastern Thailand, police reported.
The last statement from the Police on the event that occurred around noon, local time, also reported 15 injured, eight of them in serious condition.
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The suspect, 34 years old and that he was separated from the body by drug possession, committed suicide after attackdetailed the Police in his Facebook account.
“We confirm that the criminal shot himself and is dead,” the statement pointed out, while the rescue services detailed that Before taking his own life, he also killed his wife and son.
The alleged assailant fired an automatic rifle at those present at a nursery school located in the province of Nongbua Lamphu, which generally welcomes children between 2 and 5 years old, before fleeing in a van.
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The images provided by the Police show dozens of corpses scattered throughout different rooms.
Most of the injured were taken to Nong Bua Lamphu hospital, which has requested “urgently” that citizens donate blood of all kinds, according to local media.
Relatives of the victims went to the compound that was cordoned off by the police, and many of them succumbed to despair, as seen in images and videos circulating on social networks.
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The country’s prime minister, Prayut Chan-ocha, He has expressed his condolences to the families.
Mass shootings in Thailand are rare, but in 2020 a soldier killed at least 29 people and injured 58 in a rampage that spanned several locations, including a military camp and a large shopping mall in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Last month, a police officer shot dead two colleagues and wounded another at the Army Training Command War College in Bangkok.
