Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Killer and former police, นายปัญญา คำรับ – Mr. Panya Khamrab, listed as ‘Most Wanted’ for killing 22 children in Utthai Sawan, Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand. (Read More Here).
Police say he then killed himself and his family after a manhunt following the attack in Nong Bua Lamphu province.
Children and adults are among the casualties at the nursery – police say the attacker shot and stabbed his victims before fleeing the scene.
The former officer, aged 34, was sacked last year for drug use, police said.
A teacher who survived the attack told Thailand’s Thairath TV the gunman used to drop off his child at the nursery and had seemed polite. A motive for the attack remains unclear.
At least 22 children were among the dead in the mass killing in the town of Utthai Sawan. Some victims aged as young as two were attacked as they slept. A dozen people who were injured have been taken to Nong Bua Lamphu district hospital.
An ex-policeman has killed at least 34 people, most of them children, in a gun and knife attack at a pre-school daycare centre in north-east Thailand.
Police say he then killed himself and his family after a manhunt following the attack in Nong Bua Lamphu province.
Children and adults are among the casualties at the nursery – police say the attacker shot and stabbed his victims before fleeing the scene.
The former officer, aged 34, was sacked last year for drug use, police said.
A teacher who survived the attack told Thailand’s Thairath TV the gunman used to drop off his child at the nursery and had seemed polite. A motive for the attack remains unclear.
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha described the shooting as “a shocking event”.
Police named the attacker as Panya Kamrab, a local man who had been a police lieutenant colonel before he was dismissed last year for drug use.
Armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, he stormed the nursery at about 12:30 pm (0530 GMT).
The details of what followed are still emerging, but after the killing spree the attacker fled the scene in a white-four door Toyota pick-up truck with Bangkok registration plates, according to police, who launched a search for him and warned locals to keep indoors for their own safety.
Eyewitnesses were quoted saying the attacker had driven into bystanders, injuring several people, as he made his escape.
Photos and videos posted online of the day care showed the floor of one room was smeared with blood and sleeping mats scattered about. Pictures of the alphabet and other colorful decorations adorned the walls.
In videos, frantic family members could be heard weeping outside the building. Ambulances stood by as police and medical workers walked around.
A witness told Thailand’s Kom Chad Leuk television at the scene that they had locked the door to the building when they saw the suspect approaching with a handgun, but that he shot through it.
“The teacher who died, she had a child in her arms,” said the woman, whose name wasn’t given. “I didn’t think he would kill children, but he shot at the door and shot right through it.”
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