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Five school staff killed in shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Thailand

Deputy Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee said five staff members died in the Aug. 7 shooting; Bangyai Hospital said 23 people were wounded.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Aug 7, 2026, 4:45 a.m. ETUpdated Aug 8, 2026, 12:14 a.m. ET
school staff members, including teachers and administrators, were killed in a shooting at in , at around 10 a.m. on Aug. 7, 2026, Deputy Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee said, according to reporting by krcrtv.com, katv.com, wjactv.com and others that placed him at the scene. Bangyai Hospital said people were wounded, and katv.com, wcti12.com, abc3340.com, kpic.com, komonews.com and local10.com reported the hospital said 10 of them were in critical condition. Officials have not released the identities of those killed or wounded. The figures were carried by dozens of outlets with differences in attribution. abc3340.com, foxbaltimore.com, newschannel9.com, kltv.com, kfvs12.com, kpic.com, komonews.com, wgme.com, cbs6albany.com, abcnews4.com, wjactv.com and wcyb.com attributed the staff deaths directly to the deputy interior minister; kcby.com, nbc16.com, news4jax.com, news4sanantonio.com, wcti12.com, cbs2iowa.com, myfox28columbus.com, abc6onyourside.com, okcfox.com, ktul.com, wchstv.com, kfdm.com, toronto.citynews.ca, local10.com and bakersfieldnow.com attributed them to authorities generally, in some cases by way of the deputy minister. klcc.org and foxsanantonio.com attributed to authorities a count covering the school staff plus the shooter's two grandparents. All attributed the wounded figure to Bangyai Hospital. Classes were in session. is a co-educational state school with an enrollment of about 3,000 students aged 12 to 18, according to the outlets; klcc.org and katu.com described it as a school outside Bangkok. Several outlets, among them news4sanantonio.com, newschannel9.com, kpic.com, katv.com and kcby.com, reported that class had started, or had started for a while, before the shooting began, and wcti12.com, myfox28columbus.com, okcfox.com, nbc16.com, wgme.com, wchstv.com and cbs2iowa.com reported that police said the student attended school as normal that day. Police spokesperson Trairong Piwpan said the shooting began inside a classroom after class had been under way for a while. About an hour afterwards, people stood outside comforting one another as police and first responders walked around the school, The Associated Press reported. Police, regional police, first responders and Bangyai Hospital responded, and the incident is no longer active, according to foxbaltimore.com, kcby.com, kfdm.com, wjactv.com, wach.com, wrvo.org, foxsanantonio.com and krcrtv.com. Officials said the shooter took his own life, and Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he killed himself, according to wcyb.com, nbc16.com, news4jax.com, krcrtv.com, news4sanantonio.com, wcti12.com, abc3340.com, kltv.com, kfvs12.com, myfox28columbus.com, toronto.citynews.ca, wgme.com, ktul.com, katu.com, southcarolinapublicradio.org, wwmt.com and foxbaltimore.com; kcby.com reported the prime minister said the boy killed himself and okcfox.com reported he said the 14-year-old killed himself, while katv.com, cbs2iowa.com, cbs6albany.com, abcnews4.com, komonews.com, kpic.com, klcc.org, wchstv.com, nebraska.tv, yahoo.com, abc6onyourside.com and bakersfieldnow.com reported officials described the death as self-inflicted. Authorities said the shooter appeared to have killed his two grandparents at the family home earlier that morning, before the school shooting, and regional police Commander Wattana Yeejeen said officers went to the grandparents' home afterwards and found both had died of apparent gunshot wounds. The circumstances of the attack have not been determined. The school said all classes will be suspended from Aug. 10 to 14 and that staff are instructed to work from home during that period; toronto.citynews.ca, local10.com and yahoo.com reported the suspension as running between Aug. 10 and Aug. 14, and komonews.com, kpic.com, klcc.org, wjactv.com, wchstv.com, wrvo.org, katu.com, wcsufm.org and myfox28columbus.com attributed the announcement to by name. 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 258 Aug 2026, 04:14current

    No new facts; added local10.com and wcsufm.org to the attribution lists for the critical-condition, death-toll and class-suspension details.

  2. Version 248 Aug 2026, 03:19

    No new facts; wording and source attributions reviewed against the fact set and left substantively unchanged.

  3. Version 238 Aug 2026, 03:04

    No new facts; wording tightened in the setting and response paragraphs, figures and attributions unchanged.

  4. Version 228 Aug 2026, 02:53

    Added foxsanantonio.com to the combined-count and no-longer-active attributions, and wach.com, wrvo.org to the response/closure and school-announcement attributions; no factual changes.

  5. Version 218 Aug 2026, 02:34

    No new facts; headline and standfirst tightened around the school staff deaths and hospital-attributed wounded figures, story text otherwise unchanged.

  6. Version 208 Aug 2026, 02:29

    No new facts; minor tightening of the timeline wording on the grandparents' deaths and the school closure paragraph.

  7. Version 198 Aug 2026, 02:24

    Added named police attribution — spokesperson Trairong Piwpan on when the shooting began, and regional police Commander Wattana Yeejeen on officers finding the grandparents dead of apparent gunshot wounds.

  8. Version 188 Aug 2026, 02:20

    No new facts; broadened source attribution lists for the responders, self-inflicted-death and class-suspension details to include additional outlets.

  9. Version 178 Aug 2026, 01:54

    Five school staff killed in shooting at school in Nonthaburi, Thailand

  10. Version 168 Aug 2026, 01:49

    Added headline and standfirst, tightened the attribution lists, and credited wjactv.com among outlets naming the school in the class-suspension announcement; no new facts.

  11. Version 158 Aug 2026, 01:42

    No new facts; headline and standfirst added to lead with the victims and the attributed figures.

  12. Version 148 Aug 2026, 01:26

    Added klcc.org, komonews.com, kpic.com, wgme.com and abcnews4.com to the attribution breakdowns for the casualty figures, the school-day setting, the manner of the shooter's death and the class-suspension notice; no new facts.

  13. Version 138 Aug 2026, 01:09

    Added kfvs12.com and abcnews4.com to the attribution lists, updated the outlet count to 22, and named the full list of responding agencies.

  14. Version 128 Aug 2026, 01:06

    Added ktul.com and okcfox.com to the attribution tallies, including okcfox.com's report that the prime minister referred to a 14-year-old; no change to casualty figures.

  15. Version 118 Aug 2026, 00:43

    Added attribution from myfox28columbus.com, cbs6albany.com and abc6onyourside.com across casualty, setting, suspect-death and class-suspension paragraphs; outlet count updated from sixteen to eighteen.

  16. Version 108 Aug 2026, 00:37

    Corrected the count of outlets carrying the casualty figures from fifteen to sixteen; no change to reported figures.

  17. Version 98 Aug 2026, 00:26

    Added authorities' statement that the shooter appeared to have killed his two grandparents at the family home earlier that morning, folded toronto.citynews.ca into the attribution tallies, and moved the note that victims' identities have not been released into the opening paragraph.

  18. Version 88 Aug 2026, 00:22

    Added abc3340.com, kltv.com and cbs2iowa.com attributions to the casualty, setting and suspect-death paragraphs; outlet count updated from eleven to fourteen.

  19. Version 78 Aug 2026, 00:09

    Added wcti12.com and bakersfieldnow.com to the corroborating outlets, including wcti12.com's report that police said the boy attended school as normal and its confirmation of the 10 critical figure.

  20. Version 68 Aug 2026, 00:03

    Added Bangyai Hospital's figure of 10 wounded in critical condition, as reported by katv.com, and folded katv.com into the outlet attribution counts.

  21. Version 57 Aug 2026, 15:16

    Added wcyb.com as an eighth corroborating outlet for the casualty figures, setting and the prime minister's statement.

  22. Version 47 Aug 2026, 15:12

    Added five further outlets corroborating the toll and their varying attributions, plus the Associated Press account of the scene about an hour after the shooting.

  23. Version 37 Aug 2026, 14:22

    Added Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's confirmation that the shooter killed himself, and noted the two outlets' differing attribution for the casualty figures and their slightly differing accounts of the school-day setting.

  24. Version 27 Aug 2026, 14:21

    Added second-source attribution for the casualty figures and setting, and clarified which details came from which outlet.

  25. Version 17 Aug 2026, 14:01

    First published.

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