Thai mass shooting Live Updates: Gunman murders at the least 30 in a nursery attack

Thai mass shooting Live Updates: Gunman murders at the least 30 in a nursery attack

Victims included both children and a adults, police said in a statement, adding that the gunman was an a ex-police officer and a manhunt was a underway

As many as a 30 people were killed on a Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's are a day-care centre in a northeastern province of a Thailand, a police spokesperson said. Victims included both children and a adults, police said in a statement, adding that the gunman was an a ex-police officer and he killed 30 people before taking his a own life.

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- Thai PM: Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said, sending condolences to the families of the victims. On his Facebook page, Prayuth ordered all agencies to the urgently treat the wounded.

- Police colonel Jakkapat Vijitraithaya from Nong Bua Lam Phu province said the gunman went home and a killed his wife and a child after the mass shooting.

- Gunman kills self: As a per Thai media reports, the gunman also are a used knives in the attack and then fled the building. The Daily News are a newspaper reported that after a fleeing the scene of the attack the assailant returned to his a home and a killed himself along with the his wife and a child.

- Rate of a gun ownership: The rate of a gun ownership in a Thailand is a high compared with some other countries are in the region but official figures do not a include huge numbers of a illegal weapons, many of a which have been a brought in a across porous borders are a over the years from the strife-torn neighbours.

- Other similar incidents: Mass shootings are a rare but in a 2020, a soldier angry over a property deal gone sour a killed at the least 29 people and wounded 57 in a rampage that spanned are a  four locations.