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Thai prime minister suspends new firearm purchase permits after school shooting in Nonthaburi

Reported death tolls from the Aug 7 shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School range from six to nine, and officials have not released the identities of those killed.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Aug 11, 2026, 7:09 a.m. ETUpdated Aug 12, 2026, 5:44 a.m. ET
people were killed in a shooting at , a school outside Bangkok, according to reporting by The Star (thestar.com.my), The Business Times (businesstimes.com.sg) and the Bangkok Post; The Star of Kenya (the-star.co.ke) reported killed and RTE reported . The figures come from different outlets and have not been reconciled here. Channel NewsAsia, The Star of Kenya and the Bangkok Post identified the as , with Channel NewsAsia and the Bangkok Post placing it in ; RTE gives the location as , and The Star (thestar.com.my) more broadly as . Channel NewsAsia and RTE date the shooting to Aug 7, a Friday. Accounts of the setting differ: The Star of Kenya described a school day with teachers and students present, while The Business Times described . Officials have not released the identities of those who were killed. According to authorities as reported by Channel NewsAsia, RTE, The Star of Kenya and The Business Times, a pupil at the school shot his grandparents and then opened fire at teachers and students at the school. In an AFP report, a 14-year-old boy shot dead the grandparents who raised him at their home in , north of Bangkok, then killed others at his school before turning the gun on himself. AFP reported that a 12-year-old girl wounded in the school shooting died in hospital on the Saturday. Channel NewsAsia, RTE, The Star (thestar.com.my), The Star of Kenya, The Business Times and the Bangkok Post all report that the assailant is dead. Sources describe how he died in slightly different terms: Channel NewsAsia and RTE described the injury as , while The Star (thestar.com.my) reported that he and jowhar.com reported that he . Police are among the responding agencies, according to Channel NewsAsia, RTE, jowhar.com and The Star of Kenya. Why the shooting happened has not been determined. On the Sunday, police said the boy had watched violent videos online and had once brought a BB gun to school. That is what police have stated; it is not a finding on cause or motive. On Tuesday, Aug 11, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul suspended the issuance of permits to buy firearms and said existing licences would be reviewed, according to Reuters as carried by The Business Times, with Channel NewsAsia, RTE and jowhar.com also reporting the suspension of firearms licences. The prime minister called for tighter controls and decisive penalties, according to Channel NewsAsia, RTE and jowhar.com. Channel NewsAsia and The Business Times reported that the bodies of the teenage assailant and his grandparents were cremated the same day. No tip line has been published in the material available. 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 613 Aug 2026, 01:54

    Resolved weekday references to calendar dates (Aug 8 and Aug 9), added The Star of Kenya to the sources dating the shooting to Aug 7, and tightened the headline and dek.

  2. Version 512 Aug 2026, 09:44current

    Added jowhar.com attribution for the manner of the assailant's death, police response and the prime minister's statement; moved the note that victims' identities have not been released into the opening paragraph.

  3. Version 412 Aug 2026, 02:37

    Added a third reported death toll (eight, from the-star.co.ke), the conflicting descriptions of the setting, and the authorities' account of the sequence at the school.

  4. Version 312 Aug 2026, 02:18

    Added RTE's lower death toll of six as a sourced conflict alongside the nine reported elsewhere, added RTE attributions for the date, location, suspect's death and licence suspension, and appended the crisis resource line.

  5. Version 212 Aug 2026, 02:05

    Added the Aug 7 date, the AFP-reported sequence and the 12-year-old girl's death, police statements made on the Sunday, the prime minister's quoted call for tighter controls, and the cremations; clarified the conflicting accounts of the assailant's death and the location.

  6. Version 112 Aug 2026, 01:58

    First published.

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