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Nine Killed in Shooting at School Outside Bangkok

Police say the attack at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Thailand's Nonthaburi province began just before 10 a.m. on Friday, 7 August 2026. No further official account has been reported since.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 10, 2026, 12:23 a.m. ET
people were killed and injured in a shooting at on the outskirts of Bangkok, in Thailand's Nonthaburi province, on Friday, 7 August 2026, according to reporting by Daily Sabah. It was an ordinary school day at a school that had more than 3,000 students and nearly 150 teachers, according to data from last year cited in that report. Police said the shooting began just before 10:00 a.m. local time (3:00 a.m. GMT), and that the attacker had travelled 18 kilometres by bus from his grandparents' home before arriving at the school. Daily Sabah reported, without attribution to a named authority, that the gunman was a 14-year-old student at the school, that he moved through the buildings for roughly 40 minutes, killing three teachers and two school officials before turning the gun on himself, and that earlier, at dawn, he had shot and killed his grandparents at their home. Those elements have not been attributed to officials in the reporting available. Police, including a specialised unit, responded. The suspect is dead. Officials have not released the identities of those killed or injured. Daily Sabah's account, published roughly a day and a half ago, remains the only reporting available on the shooting, and nothing has been added to it since. No further official statements, no motive and no investigative findings have been placed on the record, and the circumstances of the attack have not been determined.

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