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Death toll in Nonthaburi school shooting rises to nine, police say

Police at Plai Bang station said a 12-year-old girl died of critical wounds on August 8, a day after the shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School; injury figures reported by outlets conflict.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Aug 7, 2026, 9:30 a.m. ETUpdated Aug 11, 2026, 2:25 a.m. ET

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The number of people killed in the August 7, 2026 shooting at in the Bang Kruai district of , Thailand, rose to after a 12-year-old girl who had been treated in hospital for critical wounds died, according to , who gave the figure on , August 8, as reported by laosnews.net and thailandnews.net. The Star reported the same toll of as of August 8, attributing it to , which said the toll had risen after the death of a Year 7 student. Injury figures conflict: thailandnews.net and laosnews.net reported injured, while straitstimes.com, en.apa.az, dailymirror.lk, cyprus-mail.com and gdnonline.com reported wounded, quoting Major General Dejrapee Kongdee, described variously as police commander of Nonthaburi and as provincial police commander, as saying: "There were people wounded, who have been sent to hospital for treatment." Officials have not released the identities of those killed. As of evening, 14 victims of the shooting remained in hospital, including seven in critical condition, according to reporting by thailandnews.net and laosnews.net. Withan Promsintusak, director of Debsirin School in Bangkok, said: "We never imagined that a school, which should be the safest place, is where something like this would happen." The students were at on the day of the shooting; laosnews.net reported it was the school attended by the 14-year-old suspect, who police said died of a injury, as reported by thailandnews.net and laosnews.net. Police said the boy shot his grandparents before the shooting at the school. Accounts differ on both setting and suspect status: southeastasiapost.com, thestar.com.my, laosnews.net and thailandnews.net place the shooting at the school and report the suspect as , while en.apa.az and cyprus-mail.com describe a shooting at , and straitstimes.com, en.apa.az, dailymirror.lk, cyprus-mail.com and gdnonline.com report a suspect . Those outlets report the situation is no longer active. Atthapol Anusit, deputy commissioner of Provincial Police Region 1, said: "According to witness interviews, the perpetrator had begun showing interest in studying the use of firearms for some time, about one to years." He also said: "After examining the PC, it was found that the child had watched social media content involving violence." Those are statements about lines of inquiry; investigators have not stated a cause. The responding agencies are the Plai Bang Police Station in , Provincial Police Region 1 and Nonthaburi police. Separately, officials said a gunman fired shots at a on the outskirts of Thailand's capital and was arrested, an event dated August 10 () in reporting by straitstimes.com, en.apa.az, dailymirror.lk, cyprus-mail.com and gdnonline.com — a date that cannot be reconciled with the publication dates of the coverage this account is drawn from, and cyprus-mail.com also dates the incident it describes to August 10. Thailand's prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said of planned legislation: "The new law will only allow government officials on duty to carry guns," and said: "No one has the right to carry a firearm, especially in a public place." If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24 hours a day: call or text 988.

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Revision history

  1. Version 511 Aug 2026, 06:25current

    Added headline and standfirst, and included gdnonline.com among the outlets reporting the two-wounded figure, the suspect in custody and the government office incident.

  2. Version 411 Aug 2026, 06:19

    Added dailymirror.lk and cyprus-mail.com to the two-wounded figure, the detained-suspect and no-longer-active reporting, and the separate August 10 government office incident.

  3. Version 311 Aug 2026, 05:39

    Added en.apa.az's differing account of the setting (a local government office where a senior provincial official and his driver were present), attributed the two-wounded and in-custody accounts to both straitstimes.com and en.apa.az, and flagged that the August 10 office shooting date cannot be reconciled with the sources' publication dates.

  4. Version 211 Aug 2026, 05:27

    Added the separately reported August 10 shooting at a government office and arrest, the conflicting Straits Times figures on wounded and suspect status, the school director's statement and a second quote from the prime minister.

  5. Version 110 Aug 2026, 00:32current

    First published.

  6. Version 111 Aug 2026, 05:24

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