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Overnight, coffins carrying the bodies of the victims – who include 23 children – arrived at a morgue in Udon Thani, the closest city to the rural district ripped apart by Thursday’s three-hour rampage.<\/p>\n
Armed with a 9mm pistol and a knife, sacked police sergeant Panya Khamrab opened fire on the childcare centre in the northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province at about 12.30pm (1.30pm Singapore time).<\/p>\n
Following the attack, 34-year-old Panya fled the scene in a pickup truck to head home and murder his wife and child before taking his own life, police said, ending the killing spree around 3pm.<\/p>\n
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Flags on government buildings flew at half-mast on Friday in a gesture of mourning for one of the deadliest days in recent Thai history.<\/p>\n
Nanthicha Punchum, acting chief of the nursery, described harrowing scenes as the attacker barged into the building in the rural Na Klang district.<\/p>\n
“There were some staff eating lunch outside the nursery and the attacker parked his car and shot four of them dead,” she told AFP.<\/p>\n
“The shooter smashed down the door with his leg and then came inside and started slashing the children’s heads with a knife.”<\/p>\n
Local media reported that the dead included a school teacher who was eight months pregnant, and that one child survived because they were sleeping hidden by a blanket when the attacker struck.<\/p>\n
National Police Chief Damrongsak Kittiprapat told reporters that Panya, a former police sergeant, was suspended in January and sacked in June for drug use.<\/p>\n
He said the attacker – who used a legally purchased pistol – had been due in court on a drugs charge, adding that Panya was in a manic state but it was unknown whether it was drug-related.<\/p>\n
Witness Paweena Purichan, 31, said the attacker was well-known in the area as a drug addict.<\/p>\n
She told AFP she encountered Panya driving erratically as he fled the scene.<\/p>\n
“The attacker rammed a motorbike into two people who were injured. I sped off to get away from him,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There was blood everywhere.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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