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Eight dead, more than 30 injured in shooting at school in Nonthaburi, Thai prime minister says

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the dead in the 7 August shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School included the gunman and his grandparents.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Aug 8, 2026, 6:30 a.m. ETUpdated Aug 11, 2026, 1:47 a.m. ET
Eight people were confirmed dead and more than injured, nine of them in critical condition, after a shooting at in the Bang Kruai district of , said on , according to reporting by laosnews.net, thailandnews.net, southeastasiapost.com and china.org.cn. The prime minister said the dead included the gunman and his grandparents. This is a developing account and figures may be revised. According to the same reports, local police were notified at around 10 a.m. local time on Friday, 7 August 2026, after a gunman opened fire at the school. Accounts of the setting differ in emphasis: laosnews.net described a school day at , while thailandnews.net described a school shooting at the same school; both reported that the alleged attacker was reported to be a 14-year-old student. Neither account outweighs the other, and the discrepancy has not been resolved. Thai police responded to the scene, the outlets reported. The suspect is dead, according to those reports. Officials have not released the identities of those killed or injured. What led to the shooting has not been determined. Police have not stated a motive, and no further official account of the sequence of events has been published in the material available.

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  1. Version 211 Aug 2026, 05:47current

    Added china.org.cn to the sourcing and corrected the described conflict over the setting, which is now between a school day and a school shooting at the same school rather than an additional location.

  2. Version 19 Aug 2026, 02:48

    First published.

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