At least 20 people killed in mass shooting in Thailand: Police

[nobodysfriend]

A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people including children before killing himself and his family, police said.

 

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.
 

And in 2020, in one of the country’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.

 

Where does all this hate come from ?

May be there is something wrong in the system ....

Do , at least , not sell ammunition any more .

[euroflash]

6 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

It's one bad person. 8bn people. By statistics the world is safer.

Yeah, because this is the only bad news recently...

[CharlieH]

Inappropriate comment removed.

[KhunBENQ]

24 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

Apparently the shooter was recently sacked from police, yabba related, and was due to face court tomorrow for the yabba.

 

Drugs drugs drugs...

 

About 70 km from our place. 

[crouchpeter]

59 minutes ago, overherebc said:

One report saying ex-cop.  He went home, shot his wife then shot himself.

Don't know why he had to go and kill himself. Probably didn't want to be moved to an "inactive post"!

[Peterw42]

The details of this are truly horrific. two and three year old toddlers, having their afternoon sleep. The teacher, who was 8 months pregnant, witnessed others being shot and managed to lock the classroom door but he kicked it in. 

[vandeventer]

56 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Just picked this up on BBC. At a nursery no less! Horrendous.  Why didn’t you just do yourself in. What a sad world!

I find it very hard to believe this happen in Thailand. All those kids and people. RIP to all, except him as he must be feeling the heat now. 

[CharlieH]

2 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

I find it very hard to believe this happen in Thailand. All those kids and people. RIP to all, except him as he must be feeling the heat now. 

He commited suicide ! Hopefully the heat he is feeling is in hell !

[Sparktrader]

12 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people including children before killing himself and his family, police said.

 

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.
 

And in 2020, in one of the country’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.

 

Where does all this hate come from ?

May be there is something wrong in the system ....

Do , at least , not sell ammunition any more .

Which province?

[Bangkok Barry]

2 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

I find it very hard to believe this happen in Thailand.

You clearly don't know Thailand, where drugs are everywhere and violence is always just below the surface and there is very little self-control. This drug-taking ex-cop just took things to an extreme. Thailand is very far from the fabled Land of Smiles promoted by the tourist board.

[nobodysfriend]

2 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Which province?

Nong Bua Lam Phu province

[Dmaxdan]

This shocking story has made me feel physically sick.

My heart goes out to all the victims and their families. 

May the perpetrator rot in the buddhist equivalent of hell.

 

 

[Adumbration]

Reuters is reporting that he actually entered the locked room where the kids were sleeping and stabbed them all to death.

 

How frightening for the little mites.

[Adumbration]

3 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

You clearly don't know Thailand, where drugs are everywhere and violence is always just below the surface and there is very little self-control. This drug-taking ex-cop just took things to an extreme. Thailand is very far from the fabled Land of Smiles promoted by the tourist board.

+1

[2baht]

1 minute ago, Bangkok Barry said:

You clearly don't know Thailand, where drugs are everywhere and violence is always just below the surface and there is very little self-control. This drug-taking ex-cop just took things to an extreme. Thailand is very far from the fabled Land of Smiles promoted by the tourist board.

Totally agree, there is a violent underbelly in so many of them when pushed or face is lost.

[n8sail]

Also from Reuters:

 

"The shooter came in around lunch time and shot four or five officials at the childcare centre first," said Jidapa, adding that among them was a teacher who was eight months pregnant.

[Sparktrader]

5 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Totally agree, there is a violent underbelly in so many of them when pushed or face is lost.

Udon looked like a big drug scene

[Purdey]

Too many kids dead. Similar to Uvalde. Time to ensure more unlicensed guns are confiscated. 

[nobodysfriend]

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/06/asia/thailand-mass-shooting-intl-hnk/index.html

 

The suspect had been involved in an ongoing court case for allegedly selling drugs, according to Maj. Gen. Jirapob Puridet of the CIB.

He had appeared in court in Nong Bua Lamphu hours before traveling to the nursery and “opening fire while the kids were sleeping,” Puridet said.

Puridet told CNN the former officer was dismissed from duty and “charged with selling narcotics” last year.

Gun ownership in Thailand is relatively high compared with other countries in Southeast Asia.

[RedArmy]

Very saddened by this news - Completely shocked.

 

RIP little one's ????

[Peterw42]

36 killed on Thai news now. Not sure if that includes 8 month unborn child the teacher was carrying.

[CharlieH]

19 boys 3 girls (children) murdered by this linatic.

 

Killed his own wife and son too.

[Chongalulu]

59 minutes ago, dj230 said:

Very sad to see something like this, if someone at the school was armed I wonder if so many fatalities would have occurred.  

Ah,the myth of the 'good guy with the gun'. 

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, dj230 said:

I remember in a home safety thread I made people were saying nothing like this can happen in Thailand and it’s super safe…just goes to show anything can happen and you have to be prepared.  
 

Very sad to see something like this, if someone at the school was armed I wonder if so many fatalities would have occurred.  

Maybe if each room had an armed guard. It likely would have made little difference. Look at Uvalde. Swat teams waiting outside the school for a hour, while the killer roamed around killing people. Sheer cowardice. Having a gun does not solve everything, nor does it make one brave.

 

Despite what the NRA claims!  One highly  courageous soul could have ended this with a sharp pencil jammed into his neck. All schools have pencils. 

 

[joecoolfrog]

Terrible news , evil personified !

My sincere condolences to the families involved and the local community , their grief must be unimanagable.

[snoop1130]

Gunman who massacres 35 people in Nong Bua Lam Phu kills himself

 

 

A former policeman who massacred at least 35 people, mostly children in a nursery, in the northeastern province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, has killed himself, police reported as of 3.40pm.

 

They said the gunman, identified as Pol Corporal Panya Kamlarb, shot himself dead in his home. The bodies of his wife and young son were found nearby.

 

Panya, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, barged into the nursery located in the office of the Uthai Sawan Tambon Administration in Naklang district at around 12.50pm and opened fire, killing 23 people, most of them young children, according to Pol Maj Gen Paisal Luesomboon, deputy commander of Region 4 Police.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/gunman-who-massacres-35-people-in-nong-bua-lam-phu-kills-himself/

 

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[KhunBENQ]

An olive colored helicopter just flew over our house in direction to the site. Extremely rare event.

Likely the police boss.

Not much hurry now that this scum has finished himself 

[Peterw42]

1 minute ago, CharlieH said:

19 boys 3 girls murdered by this linatic.

 

Killed his own wife and son too.

Apparently one child survived, and 12 other people in hospital seriously injured. he was shooting at random people before and after the school

[nobodysfriend]

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Maybe if each room had an armed guard.

Than there should be somebody armed who surveils the armed guards , too ... and who will surveil this one ?

 

[Expat68]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Just saw this on the BBC ????.

 

Shades of the Terminal 21 killing in Korat. A soldier again by all accounts. Shocking. Hopefully he is caught soon. 

 

Edit ; a policeman not a soldier. 

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