{"id":11223,"date":"2022-10-06T13:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:35:01","slug":"gunman-murders-at-least-31-in-thailand-nursery-attack-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/gunman-murders-at-least-31-in-thailand-nursery-attack-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman murders at least 31 in Thailand nursery attack: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunman murders at least 30 in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thailand\">Thailand<\/a> nursery attack: police. A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead 34 people including children before killing himself and his family, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened fire on the childcare centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu province at about 12:30pm (0530 GMT) before fleeing the scene in a vehicle, the force said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death toll from the shooting incident&#8230; is at least 31 people,&#8221; Anucha Burapachaisri, a spokesman for the Thai prime minister&#8217;s office, said.<\/p>\n<p>Police colonel Jakkapat Vijitraithaya, from the province where the attack happened, identified the gunman as Panya Khamrab, a police lieutenant colonel he said was dismissed from the force last year for drug use.<\/p>\n<p>Jakkapat said there were 23 children among the dead, aged two to three years old.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/indian-army-pilot-killed-in-helicopter-crash.html\">Indian Army pilot killed in helicopter crash<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Media reported that the gunman had been at court on drugs prior to opening fire.<\/p>\n<p>The mass killing comes less than a month after a serving army officer shot dead two colleagues at a military training base in the capital Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>While Thailand has high rates of gun ownership, mass shootings are extremely rare.<\/p>\n<p>But in the past year, there have been at least two other cases of shooting murders by serving soldiers, according to the Bangkok Post.<\/p>\n<p>And in 2020, in one of the kingdom&#8217;s deadliest incidents in recent years, a soldier gunned down 29 people in a 17-hour rampage and wounded scores more before he was shot dead by commandos.<\/p>\n<p>That mass shooting was linked to a debt dispute between gunman Sergeant-Major Jakrapanth Thomma and a senior officer, and the military top brass were at pains to portray the killer as a rogue soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunman murders at least 30 in Thailand nursery attack: police. A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead 34 people including children before killing himself and his family, police said. The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[6794],"class_list":["post-11223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}