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Five Killed in Shooting at Thai Secondary School in Nonthaburi Province

Officials and hospital sources gave conflicting death and injury tolls after the August 7, 2026 attack at Debsirin Nonthaburi School near Bangkok.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 10:50 a.m. ET
people were killed in a shooting at in , Thailand, on , according to reporting by KY3, KTRE and the Durango Herald, which attributed to Deputy Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee a statement that school staff members, including teachers and administrators, died in a shooting at around 10 a.m. Other figures are on the record: killed, as reported by the New Zealand Herald and Jacaranda FM; and killed, given by , as reported by the Irish Mirror. people were injured, according to , as reported by The Age, WAtoday, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Brisbane Times, Asharq Al-Awsat, Breaking News, Geo News and LBC, and named as , by Dunya News; the New Zealand Herald and Jacaranda FM reported the same injury figure, attributing it to Bangyai Hospital. KY3, KTRE and the Durango Herald reported injured, with 10 in a critical condition, attributed to Bangyai Hospital. Thailand News reported a breakdown of the attributed to the 's disaster prevention and mitigation office, citing Thai media. The officials gave their figures separately and the accounts have not been reconciled; counts given early in an incident are frequently revised. The casualty figures are as of , per WAtoday. Officials have not released the identities of those killed or injured. It was a school day, with students on the premises at the secondary school, as reported by the Irish Mirror. Breaking News reported that authorities said the school had an enrolment of around 3,100 students and 147 teachers in the 2025 academic year; KY3, KTRE and the Durango Herald described it as a co-educational state school with an enrolment of about 3,000 students aged 12 to 18. Geo News reported that teachers and students were among those killed, and that students streamed out of the school as ambulances operated. LBC reported, without attributing the account to a named official, that the attack started inside the computer room of the building at around 10.40am local time. The Irish Mirror reported that officers rushed to the school north of Bangkok after reports of an armed individual on the premises. Police urged residents to stay well away from the area and said: "Anyone trapped inside a building, hide, close everything tightly, and wait for rescue personnel to arrive," as reported by the Irish Mirror. LBC and Dunya News reported that the incident is no longer active. The Associated Press reported that about an hour after the shooting, people stood outside comforting one another as police and first responders walked around the school, according to KY3. An emergency worker who responded, Kiatikhun Verapongpradith, 47, described treating one of the casualties: "We gave CPR for about 30 minutes and rushed her to the hospital as we could not get her heart rate up, but we tried our best," as reported by Jacaranda FM, LBC, the Irish Mirror and Dunya News. Police said the gunman killed his grandparents at their home before opening fire at the school on Bangkok's outskirts, as reported by LBC and Geo News. The commander of the Nonthaburi Provincial Police said the gunman killed himself, as reported by The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald; WAtoday, the Brisbane Times and Dunya News reported that officials said the suspected gunman had killed himself and described the injury as self-inflicted, and LBC, KY3, KTRE, the Durango Herald, Geo News and the Irish Mirror also reported the death as self-inflicted. Police have listed the suspect as . No name has been released to this fact set. Authorities have not stated a cause or a motive. Thailand's Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said: "This is really bad, it shouldn't have happened. I don't just feel sorry for the victims but I feel sorry that this happened. How can this happen in our country. This is why the government do not allow [citizens] to posses firearms," as reported by LBC and the Irish Mirror. In a further quoted remark he said: "It's such a terrible incident. It should never have happened. How could this happen in our country?" The Thai national police, the Nonthaburi Provincial Police, the Thai interior ministry and emergency services are among the responding agencies. Most sources — WAtoday, the Brisbane Times, LBC, Geo News, Dunya News, KY3, KTRE and the Durango Herald — identified the location at level; The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Asharq Al-Awsat and Breaking News reported it at level, and Thailand News and Jacaranda FM at level. 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 167 Aug 2026, 14:50current

    Added a second quoted remark from Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and standardised the date format; casualty figures and attributions unchanged.

  2. Version 157 Aug 2026, 13:27

    Lead death toll updated to five (KY3, KTRE, Durango Herald) with four and six retained as competing figures; KTRE added as a source throughout.

  3. Version 147 Aug 2026, 13:18

    Added Durango Herald to the five-killed and 23-injured attributions, including the hospital's 10-critical figure, and named the police spokesman as given by Dunya News; casualty ranges unchanged.

  4. Version 137 Aug 2026, 12:37current

    Added KY3's competing counts (five killed, 23 injured) and its ~10 a.m. attribution to the deputy interior minister, plus KY3's school-enrolment detail and the AP scene description.

  5. Version 127 Aug 2026, 11:22

    Added a responding emergency worker's account of attempted resuscitation, credited Dunya News on the self-inflicted death and venue-level location, and replaced the generic support line with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

  6. Version 117 Aug 2026, 10:18

    Headline and lead now carry the best-supported death toll of four, attributed to the deputy interior minister, with the Irish Mirror's figure of six reported alongside; injury attribution and responding agencies expanded.

  7. Version 107 Aug 2026, 08:33

    Added district authorities' school enrolment figures (about 3,100 students, 147 teachers in 2025) per Breaking News, and reordered the location-granularity note to lead with the best-supported venue-level description.

  8. Version 97 Aug 2026, 08:22

    Added the Irish Mirror's reporting of six killed per the Nonthaburi provincial police commander, presented as a four-to-six range with the New Zealand Herald's figure, plus the police instruction to the public and the school-in-session detail.

  9. Version 87 Aug 2026, 08:06

    Added Thailand News's report of a deceased breakdown attributed to the province's disaster prevention and mitigation office, and its province-level location description.

  10. Version 77 Aug 2026, 06:52

    Added police account that the gunman killed his grandparents at their home beforehand, and Geo News reporting that teachers and students were among the dead and that students left as ambulances operated.

  11. Version 67 Aug 2026, 06:42

    Added the approximate time and setting reported by LBC, the Thai prime minister's statement, and that the incident is no longer active; headline updated to reflect the reported death toll.

  12. Version 57 Aug 2026, 06:36

    Added Asharq Al-Awsat and the Brisbane Times as further sources for the injury figure, the venue and the suspect's status, and updated the headline to lead with the reported casualty figures.

  13. Version 47 Aug 2026, 06:32

    Added Sydney Morning Herald as a corroborating source for the injury figure, location and suspect death; attributed the self-inflicted death statement to the Nonthaburi Provincial Police commander.

  14. Version 37 Aug 2026, 06:26

    Added the as-of date for casualty figures, attributed the injury count to WAtoday as well, and replaced the single-granularity location line with the sourced district/venue disagreement.

  15. Version 27 Aug 2026, 06:16

    Added a death toll of four attributed to Deputy Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee via the New Zealand Herald, noted the differing official accounts of the toll, and updated the headline and dek accordingly.

  16. Version 17 Aug 2026, 06:12

    First published.

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