A 15-year-old student shot and killed a teacher before taking his own life during a Friday shooting at a renowned school in Nonthaburi, leaving six dead and at least 15 injured. <\/p>\n
The incident took place on Friday, August 7, at the renowned Debsirin Nonthaburi School in the Bang Kruai district, located on the northwestern outskirts of Thailand’s capital. BBC journalists spoke with a female student who managed to escape the building, reporting that she was in her classroom when she saw a gunman moving from room to room before shooting a teacher.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, at least 15 people were wounded, with two in critical condition, while six people have died. An 18-year-old student recounted that he initially thought the sounds were firecrackers or someone striking a metal object before realizing they were gunshots, noting the heavy gunfire followed by a silence and then more shots.<\/p>\n
Thai police spokesman Trairong Phiwphan confirmed that the perpetrator was a 15-year-old student who killed a teacher and then committed suicide, with his motives remaining unknown. Police officers quickly evacuated students and staff, surrounded the building, treated the wounded, and transported them to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The BBC reported that the boy allegedly killed his grandparents at a home on the outskirts of Bangkok before heading to the school. Police stated that the 9 mm pistol used by the 15-year-old belonged to his grandfather, who was a teacher.<\/p>\n
Firearms regulations in Thailand are relatively strict, carrying penalties of up to 10 years in prison for illegal possession, yet the country maintains one of the highest rates of civilian gun ownership in Southeast Asia. Several tragic firearm incidents have occurred in recent years, including a February shooting in the southern Hat Yai district that killed a teacher and wounded a student.<\/p>\n
The renowned school in Nonthaburi, where Friday’s shooting took place, enrolls more than 3,000 students and employed 147 teachers the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 15-year-old student shot and killed a teacher before taking his own life during a Friday shooting at a renowned school in Nonthaburi, leaving six dead and at least 15 injured. Shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School The incident took place on Friday, August 7, at the renowned Debsirin Nonthaburi School in the Bang Kruai district, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}