> Thai teen kills 8 in rampage at home and school before shooting himself

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BANGKOK – A Thai teenager killed at least six people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Aug 7 after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the country’s worst mass killing since 2022.

Police said the shooter, who was 14 years old, fired at least 26 bullets, and was found with 34 additional rounds of ammunition. The gun had belonged to his grandfather, police said.

Gun ownership and gun violence are not uncommon in Thailand, which has seen a series of deadly shootings over the past six years, with children among the victims.

Thailand’s worst mass killing by a single perpetrator in its recent history took place in 2022, when a former policeman ran amok in a three-hour gun-and-knife attack in the north-east that killed 36 people, including 22 children who were stabbed as they slept at a daycare centre.