Some sickening news has emerged from Thailand.
A former Thai police officer opened fire inside a daycare center and killed 36 people on Thursday.
Of the 36 people killed 22 of them were children which included his own child.
The man behind the terror was 34-year-old Panya Khamrab who need up killing himself after the mass shooting.
Many locals in Thailand believe the killings would’ve been exponentially less if open carry laws weren’t so strict in their country.
A former police officer who attacked a child-care facility in Thailand, killing more than 30 people, most of them children, was fired from the police force in June after being arrested with methamphetamine, according to the Royal Thai Police.https://t.co/m3yJehXGkL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 6, 2022
MSN had more details to add to the horrific story:
At least 36 people died, including 22 children, when a former police officer opened fire at a day care center in northern Thailand on Thursday, police said.
Col. Jackrapat Wijitwaitaya, police superintendent at Naklang Police, told NBC News 19 boys and three girls were among the 22 children killed in the attack in Uthai Sawan, which is about 300 miles northeast of the capital city of Bangkok.
Police identified the gunman as 34-year-old Panya Khamrab, a former police officer at Na Wang Police Station in Nong Bua Bamphu province until he was arrested on methamphetamines charges.
Khamrab died by suicide after killing his wife and child, according to police. Wijitwaitaya told NBC News police are still investigating a motive for the attack.
A gunman attacked a child care center in Thailand and then fired from his car as he fled, killing more than 30 people, including two dozen children. The gunman, a former police officer, later killed his wife and child before taking his own life. https://t.co/KwWcc9EBg3
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 6, 2022
A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers. https://t.co/sjOIDJ6WQl
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) October 6, 2022
The Associated Press had these details to add:
A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center Thursday in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled. At least 36 people were slain in the deadliest rampage in the nation’s history.
The assailant, who was fired earlier this year, took his own life after killing his wife and child at home.
Photos taken by first responders showed the school’s floor littered with the tiny bodies of children still on their blankets, where they had been taking an afternoon nap. The images showed slashes to their faces and gunshots to their heads and pools of blood.
A teacher told public broadcaster Thai PBS that the assailant got out of a car and immediately shot a man eating lunch outside, then fired more shots. When the attacker paused to reload, the teacher had an opportunity to run inside.
“I ran to the back, the children were asleep,” said the young woman, who did not give her name, choking back her words. “The children were two or three years old.”
The attack took place in the rural town of Uthai Sawan in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nongbua Lamphu, one of the country’s poorest regions.
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More than 30 people slaughtered in nursery shooting: Thai ex-cop kills 24 children as young as two and multiple teachers before killing his wife and young son then taking his own life
Children and adults are among scores dead after a horror nursery massacre pic.twitter.com/UQKYWUa8ur
— MassiVeMaC (@SchengenStory) October 6, 2022
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