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Killing in Thailand: 35 dead, including 22 children in the attack on a nursery

The new report from the police of the province of Nong Bua Lamphu (north) reports 22 children who died in the nursery, against 23 previously.

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Killing in Thailand: 35 dead, including 22 children in the attack on a nursery

The new report from the police of the province of Nong Bua Lamphu (north) reports 22 children who died in the nursery, against 23 previously.

Twelve people were also injured, three of them seriously, said police colonel Jakkapat Vijitraithaya.

The country's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha has ordered an investigation into the "horrific" massacre, he wrote on his Facebook account.

The leader asked the police chief "to go there and speed up the investigations."

The 34-year-old shooter, armed with a rifle, pistol and knife, opened fire at a nursery in Na Klang, in the north of the country, around 12:30 p.m. local time (0630 GMT), describes Mr. Vijitraithaya.

He then fled by car, killing several passers-by, before killing his wife and their child. The massacre ended when he took his own life.

"He tried to hit other people on the road. He hit a motorbike and two people were injured. I hurried away," witness Paweena Purichan, 31, told AFP. who was riding his motorbike towards his shop. "There was blood everywhere," she said.

A police press conference is scheduled for 6 p.m. local time (1200 GMT).

The shooter, Panya Khamrab, was sacked from his post as lieutenant colonel last year due to a drug problem.

- 29 deaths in 2020 -

A first report from the authorities reported "at least 20 dead" and several injured, before gradually increasing.

Thailand is one of the countries in the world with the largest number of weapons in circulation.

A shooting perpetrated by an army officer had occurred in February 2020 in Thailand in a shopping center in Nakhon Ratchasima, killing 29 people.

The shooter, a 31-year-old chief warrant officer, was shot dead by law enforcement after his murderous spree lasting almost 17 hours. He had taken action after an argument with a superior.

"This is unprecedented in Thailand and I want this to be the last time such a crisis happens," Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, still in office, said at the time.

A royal army sergeant major was also behind a shooting at a military site in Bangkok in September, killing two officers.

"I am shocked by the horrific events in Thailand. My thoughts are with those affected and the rescuers," British Prime Minister Liz Truss tweeted.

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