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Six killed in shooting at high school in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, police say

Police said six people were killed and 15 injured at Debsirin Nonthaburi School on the morning of Friday, August 7, 2026, with other outlets reporting different figures; identities have not been released.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 10, 2026, 8:18 p.m. ET
Pupils and teachers were at on the morning of Friday, August 7, 2026, when gunshots were heard from another building, according to reporting by outlets including Breaking News, the Free Press Series and the Eastern Daily Press, which said some pupils hid in a classroom. Rappler reported the school had an enrolment of around 3,100 students and 147 teachers in the 2025 academic year; Metro described it as a secondary school with around 3,000 pupils. Accounts of the location differ: outlets including the Free Press Series and The Star placed the school in , while Metro, the Canberra Times, Rappler, Fox News and BusinessWorld placed it in Bang Kruai district on the outskirts of Bangkok. RNZ gave both. The Star reported the incident was no longer active. A Royal Thai Police spokesman said people were killed, a figure carried by outlets including the Canberra Times, Metro, RNZ, BusinessWorld, the Craven Herald and Fox News; Rappler reported killed. The same police spokesman, speaking later to broadcaster Channel 3, gave the number of injured as , as reported by dozens of outlets including the Daily Echo, Breaking News and the Salisbury Journal, while Rappler reported injured. Separately, health minister Pattana Promphat said 22 people were injured, nine of them critically. Metro reported that Lt Col Dechrapee Kongdee Nonthaburi, the provincial police commander, confirmed casualties to Reuters. Several outlets attributed the figures to Lieutenant Colonel Trirong Phophan, a spokesman for the National Police, who spoke to Reuters; BusinessWorld and RNZ gave his rank as Lieutenant General. Officials have not released the identities of those killed or injured. Accounts of the attacker's status conflict. The Canberra Times, Metro, RNZ, The Star, BusinessWorld, Rappler, Fox News and several UK titles reported that the student died, with police saying he killed himself; a Royal Thai Police spokesman was quoted by numerous other outlets, including the Redditch Advertiser, News Shopper, Penarth Times, Messenger Newspapers, Breaking News and the Falmouth Packet, as saying the shooter was in hospital in a serious condition. Officers who examined a house in Bang Bua Thong district, Nonthaburi, found that both of the suspected attacker's grandparents had died there earlier that morning, police said. No motive has been established and the circumstances have not been determined. On the weapon, Pol Lt Gen Trairong Phiwphan, a spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, said: "At this stage, we know only that the firearm was registered to a family member," adding that "how the attacker obtained the weapon and the other details involved must be established through the investigative process." That is the police's stated posture, not a finding. Thailand's Poh Teck Tung Foundation said it was "urgently evacuating students from the area." Kiatikhun Verapongpradith, 47, an emergency worker who responded, said of one patient: "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." Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said: "This is terrible for something like this to happen. I'm sad for those who died and sad for something like this to happen in our country." About an hour after the shooting, images from the scene showed people standing outside the school comforting one another as police and first responders moved around inside. Students streamed out of the school and parents went to collect their children, outlets including the Canberra Times and BusinessWorld reported.

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  1. Version 311 Aug 2026, 00:18current

    Removed the "developing story" line now that the incident is recorded as no longer active; headline and dek tightened, no factual changes.

  2. Version 27 Aug 2026, 13:39

    Removed the standing crisis-resources footer in full, which was the sole source of the flagged numbers 116 and 123 (and 988), none of which appear in the fact set. No reported detail was lost: the footer carried no information about the incident. In the third paragraph, named the specific outlets carrying the Royal Thai Police spokesman's statement that the shooter was hospitalised in serious condition, so the conflict over the attacker's status is attributed as concretely as the competing account; added the corresponding source URLs. All casualty figures, the 6/5 killed and 15/23 injured disagreements, the health minister's separate 22 injured with nine critical, the location conflict and the attribution range are unchanged.

  3. Version 17 Aug 2026, 13:33

    First published.

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