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Six killed and 15 injured in shooting at Thai secondary school, police say

Police in Nonthaburi province gave a timeline of Friday's shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School and said several possible factors are being examined; casualty figures differ across outlets.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 10, 2026, 11:28 p.m. ET

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people were killed and injured in a shooting at on the morning of Friday, August , 2026, according to . That toll was carried by WLKY, WCVB, WESH, KCRA, KCCI, KOAT, WMUR, WMTW, WPBF, WISN, WVTM13 and WXII12, with the injured figure also reported by the Hindustan Times. Other counts are on the record: TIME reported killed and injured, citing ; Open Magazine reported killed and injured; ARY News reported killed and injured; and Thailand News and Laos News reported killed, citing . The figures were current as of , according to WISN, and as of , according to TIME. It was an ordinary school day. Students and teachers were present when the shooting occurred, according to the Hindustan Times. Several outlets, among them WLKY, WCVB, WISN and KCCI, described Debsirin Nonthaburi as a well-known secondary school of about 3,000 students, with WLKY, WPBF and WMTW adding that it sits on a busy highway; ARY News reported the school had around 3,100 students and 147 teachers in the 2025 academic year, and that students streamed out as the wounded were loaded into ambulances. The school is in , north of Bangkok, as reported by most outlets; WCVB placed it in . Officials have identified the location at the level of the , though Thailand News and Laos News gave it only as the . At a case review meeting, police set out a timeline reported by the Bangkok Post: the suspect arrived at school and took part in the morning flag-raising ceremony, and at .53am a teacher was fatally shot in a sixth-floor classroom. A uniformed patrol from Plai Bang police station arrived at 10.02am and requested additional support a minute later; at 10.08am officers attempted to talk with the suspect and ordered him to stop shooting. At 10.10am, police said, the suspect , after which tactical police teams entered the building and cleared the area. Thailand's Central Investigation Bureau said the "situation is now under control," and the incident is no longer active. One emergency responder, Kiatikhun Verapongpradith, 47, said officers and medics found the perpetrator with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and began CPR, and said of another 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." Accounts of the suspected gunman's condition still differ. The Hindustan Times, Thailand News, Laos News, Open Magazine, ARY News, TIME and the Bangkok Post reported that he is dead, with police cited as saying the injury was self-inflicted; Open Magazine said he died in hospital. WLKY, WCVB, WESH, KCRA, KCCI, KOAT, WMUR, WMTW, WPBF, WISN, WVTM13 and WXII12, citing Lt. Gen. Trairong, reported that he remained in critical condition and that doctors were providing emergency treatment, and several noted that police corrected earlier reports quoting them as saying he had died. No cause or motive has been determined. Pol Maj Gen Atthapol Anusit, deputy commissioner of Provincial Police Region 1, said: "We found that several factors may have combined, including family issues, studies, friendships and the consumption of violent content on social media," adding: "Sometimes young people try to tell us about their problems, but we may not pay enough attention. We may not know what they are thinking or searching for, especially when social media is so easily accessible." Prime Minister Anutin, who called the shooting "horrible" and said "This is terrible for something like this to happen," said that interviews with a close friend indicated the student "had been under stress and had complained about pressure over his studies," and that a "new law will only allow government officials on duty to carry guns." Officials have not released the identities of those killed or injured.

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Revision history

  1. Version 612 Aug 2026, 08:53current

    Removed unnecessary weapon-handling detail from the police timeline; no new official figures or identifications since v5.

  2. Version 511 Aug 2026, 03:28current

    Added the police case-review timeline reported by the Bangkok Post, the deputy commissioner's and prime minister's statements on factors being examined and a planned gun law, and the additional casualty figures from TIME and ARY News.

  3. Version 512 Aug 2026, 08:51

    Restructured to lead with the victim and the mourning community, added a headline and standfirst, and moved the school-reopening order to the close; facts unchanged.

  4. Version 47 Aug 2026, 15:27

    Removed the closing 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline paragraph, which was appended boilerplate aimed at a US audience for an incident in Thailand. Kept all reporting on the suspect's condition and the conflicting accounts of a self-inflicted death, and made those attributions more specific outlet by outlet (Thailand News/Laos News: police said he killed himself; Hindustan Times: police said he turned the gun on himself; Open Magazine: died in hospital). Also printed the competing casualty figures as digits exactly as given (4, 8, 20) and completed the as-of date to Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. No other changes.

  5. Version 412 Aug 2026, 08:47

    Gave the police spokesperson his full name and role — "Police spokesperson Lt. Gen. Trairong Phiwphan" — at first mention in the casualty paragraph, and again in full, with his role restated, where his critical-condition statement appears, so no bare surname carries a statement. Moved the suspect-status paragraph so it leads with the best-supported 'deceased' finding and its attributions, with Lt. Gen. Trairong Phiwphan's competing account in the same breath. Kept every conflict sourced and unresolved: casualty figures (15 injured per Lt. Gen. Trairong Phiwphan and 12 U.S. outlets plus Hindustan Times, against 20, 23 and 27), death toll (four through nine, each with its sources and officials), as-of times (Friday, Aug. 7, 2026 per WISN; Friday evening per TIME), location wording (Bang Kruai district, Nonthaburi province vs WCVB's phrasing, plus the district-only granularity in thailandnews.net and laosnews.net) and the varying descriptions of the school setting. Restored fuller versions of the Atthapol Anusit and Anutin Charnvirakul quotes as the fact set gives them.

  6. Version 37 Aug 2026, 13:15

    Added competing casualty tolls from Thailand News/Laos News (four killed, per the education minister) and Open Magazine (eight killed, 20 injured), the Thai prime minister's comment, and broadened attribution across the additional outlets.

  7. Version 312 Aug 2026, 08:44

    Leads with the school director's order resuming online classes from Aug. 18 and on-site teaching from Sept. 1, and adds the Bangkok Post figures of nine killed and 27 injured to the sourced range.

  8. Version 27 Aug 2026, 06:57current

    Added WLKY corroboration of the casualty figures and its note that early reports had police saying the suspect died, plus its detail that the school is on a busy highway; tightened location attribution.

  9. Version 211 Aug 2026, 03:54

    Leads on Sunday's mourning ceremony at Wat Lat Pla Duk; adds later police timeline entries, an emergency responder's account and further statements from police and the prime minister.

  10. Version 17 Aug 2026, 06:53

    First published.

  11. Version 111 Aug 2026, 03:43

    First published.

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