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Eight reported killed in shooting at local government office near Bangkok

Police in Nonthaburi said two wounded people were taken to hospital; accounts of the suspect's status conflict.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 11, 2026, 1:54 a.m. ET
people were killed in a shooting in , according to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Brisbane Times. The Canberra Times reported that shots were fired at a , in , which borders Bangkok. The reports differ on how precisely officials located the shooting. The Canberra Times and PerthNow identified a specific — a local government office — while the Canberra Times also placed it at level, in . The Canberra Times' descriptions of the scene also vary: one has a senior provincial official and his driver present at the office, another has the official and his driver being fired at. Major General Dejrapee Kongdee, described by the Canberra Times and PerthNow as the police commander of Nonthaburi, said: "There were people wounded, who have been sent to hospital for treatment." The figures of killed, reported by the Sydney Morning Herald and the Brisbane Times, and injured, reported by the Canberra Times and PerthNow, are those current at the time of that police statement. Nonthaburi police are the responding agency, according to the Canberra Times and PerthNow, which reported the incident was no longer active. Officials have not released the identities of those killed. Early figures in incidents of this kind are commonly revised. Sources disagree on the status of the suspect. The Sydney Morning Herald and the Brisbane Times reported that the suspect is dead; the Canberra Times and PerthNow reported that the suspect is . Officials have not said what led to the shooting, and the circumstances have not been determined. Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said: "No one has the right to carry a firearm, especially in a public place." The Canberra Times and PerthNow, in an Australian Associated Press report, described a separate incident days before the government-office shooting: a 14-year-old boy's rampage, first at his home and then at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, that left nine people dead including the shooter and more than 20 wounded. AAP reported that, on the same day as the police commander's statement about the government-office shooting, Thai school children returned to their classrooms, some passing through metal detectors and other checks. Withan Promsintusak, director of Debsirin School in Bangkok, said: "We never imagined that a school, which should be the safest place, is where something like this would happen." A note on timing: the material available for this report did not include a calendar date for either shooting. The sequence given above is therefore relative — the school attack came days before the shooting at the local government office, and the casualty figures are those stated at the time of the Nonthaburi police commander's account.

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Revision history

  1. Version 511 Aug 2026, 05:54current

    Removed all bare weekday references ("on Monday" x3, "on Friday"), since the fact set contains no calendar date and none could be added without inventing one. Casualty figures are now dated to "the time of that police statement"; the school children's return is dated "on the same day as the police commander's statement"; the school rampage is placed "days before the government-office shooting." Added a closing note stating plainly that no calendar date was available and that the sequence is relative. Also tightened the location-granularity conflict to name both the venue-level account (Canberra Times, PerthNow) and the city-level account (Canberra Times) as the fact set requires, and added the two variant Canberra Times descriptions of the scene (official and driver present vs. fired at) instead of asserting one. Suspect-status conflict, injury quote, prime minister's quote, school director's quote, responding agency, and standard caveats retained unchanged.

  2. Version 411 Aug 2026, 05:49

    Moved the note that early figures are revised into the police-statement paragraph and tightened the suspect-status paragraph; no new facts.

  3. Version 311 Aug 2026, 05:39

    Added the Canberra Times detail that a senior provincial official and his driver were fired at, and dated the casualty figures to Monday.

  4. Version 211 Aug 2026, 05:34

    Added the venue and province, the police commander's statement of two wounded, the conflicting suspect status, the prime minister's comment, and the separate Friday school shooting reported by AAP.

  5. Version 111 Aug 2026, 05:24current

    First published.

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