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Eight Killed in Shooting at School in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand

National police said eight people died at Debsirin Nonthaburi School on Friday 7 August 2026; officials have not released the identities of those killed.

2 reports on this incident · first at Aug 7, 2026, 8:07 a.m. ET

By AI ReporterFirst reported Aug 7, 2026, 4:54 a.m. ETUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 10:35 a.m. ET
people were killed in a shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in , on Friday August 2026, according to figures national police gave as reported by Euronews. people were injured, Thailand's deputy interior minister, Polapee Suwunchwee, said, as reported by Eyewitness News and The Standard; the Daily Mirror reported that police later said people were injured. The casualty figures were current as of Friday, according to The Standard. Early casualty figures in incidents of this kind are frequently revised. Of the injured, deputy interior minister Polapee Suwunchwee said: " injured students were not struck by gunfire but hurt as they were trying to flee." Accounts of the setting differ. Eyewitness News described a school day at the secondary school north of Bangkok with students and staff present; The Standard described a school day with parents racing to pick up their children afterwards; the Daily Mirror described a school day with parents waiting outside to pick up their children. Sources also differ on the location officials gave, with Euronews, Eyewitness News and The Standard placing it at the school itself and the Daily Mirror giving the . Officials have not released the identities of those killed. Police said a teenage suspect killed his grandparents before shooting dead at least more people at the school, according to Eyewitness News. The suspect is dead, police said. Officials have not said how the shooting came about, and no motive has been established. Dozens of police and emergency responders gathered outside the cordoned-off school on Friday, according to AFP journalists cited by Eyewitness News and the Daily Mirror. Thailand's national police, the interior ministry and emergency responders are among the agencies that responded, according to the same reporting. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said: "It's such a terrible incident. It should never have happened. How could this happen in our country?" Education Minister Prasert Jantararuangtong said: "We haven't checked whether students have brought weapons to school. Our level of security is not that tight."

Earlier reports

  1. Aug 7, 2026, 8:07 a.m. ETFirst report

    Eight killed in shooting at school in Nonthaburi, Thailand, police say

    Eight people were killed in a shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, on Friday 7 August 2026, according to figures national police gave as reported by Euronews. Fifteen people were injured, deputy interior minister Polapee Suwunchwee said, as reported by Eyewitness News and The Standard. The casualty figures were current as of Friday, according to The Standard.

    Accounts of the setting differ: Eyewitness News described a school day at the secondary school north of Bangkok with students and staff present, while The Standard described a school day with parents racing to pick up their children afterwards. Officials have not released the identities of those killed. Early casualty figures in incidents of this kind are frequently revised; the figures above are the ones attributed to police and to the deputy interior minister in that reporting.

    Police said a teenage suspect killed his grandparents before shooting dead at least six more people at the school, according to Eyewitness News. The suspect is dead, police said. Officials have not said how the shooting came about, and no motive has been established.

    Thailand's national police, the interior ministry and emergency responders are among the agencies that responded, according to the same reporting.

    Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said: "It's such a terrible incident. It should never have happened. How could this happen in our country?"

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Revision history

  1. Version 57 Aug 2026, 14:35current

    Gave Polapee Suwunchwee's full name and office both at first mention ("Thailand's deputy interior minister, Polapee Suwunchwee") and again at the point of his direct quote, replacing the surname-only reference. All figures, attributions and the 15-versus-23 injured disagreement, the stated_by disagreement, the location-granularity disagreement and the three competing setting accounts are unchanged.

  2. Version 47 Aug 2026, 13:42

    Added the Daily Mirror's competing figure of 23 injured, the deputy interior minister's quote on how the injured were hurt, the education minister's statement, the AFP-reported police cordon, and the differing accounts of the location and setting.

  3. Version 37 Aug 2026, 12:07current

    Added the conflicting descriptions of the setting from Eyewitness News and The Standard, noted the figures are as of Friday per The Standard, and added The Standard's attribution for the injured count.

  4. Version 27 Aug 2026, 09:07

    Added injured figure (15) attributed to the deputy interior minister, the police account that the suspect killed his grandparents before the school shooting, the school-day setting and the date detail.

  5. Version 17 Aug 2026, 07:31

    First published.

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