The first victim of the August 7 shooting at a Thai secondary school to be named publicly is Nanchanatphon Nakplang, a 31-year-old Thai language teacher. A relative, Supang Nakphalang, spoke about her death at her funeral, according to thailandnews.net, which reported that she had been filling in for a colleague unable to attend the class. The identities of the other people killed have not been released in the reporting available.
people were killed, police said, according to manilatimes.net and kesq.com, and were injured, according to manilatimes.net; police were quoted as saying more than people were injured. Police said the attacker, a student, apparently took his own life; kesq.com, carrying CNN's reporting, described the injury as . CNN said a 14-year-old gunman first killed his grandparents at their home, where he also lived, then opened fire at a secondary school, killing six people there, before killing himself. Accounts of the setting differ: thailandnews.net described a class in session at , on the outskirts of Bangkok, while kesq.com described a secondary school in Thailand attacked after the assault at the grandparents' home. Neither account outweighs the other. The location is given at differing levels of detail — manilatimes.net and kesq.com place it in Nonthaburi , while thailandnews.net names the school. Police were among the agencies that responded, according to manilatimes.net and kesq.com. The incident is no longer active.
"This is the first time we have experienced such a serious incident of violence within a school in which several teachers and students lost their lives," Thailand's deputy prime minister and education minister, Prasert Jantararuangtong, said. "Going forward, we must give greater importance to these issues, and every sector must play a role in doing so."
On Tuesday, according to a statement from the Thai prime minister's office, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul issued a directive ordering government officials to "urgently elevate firearm control measures across the entire system," and to "accelerate crackdowns on illegal firearms, rigorously prosecute offenders, and request maximum penalties from the court." A government spokeswoman, Lalida Persvivatana, said the aim was "to find ways to remove guns from people's daily lives as much as possible and make Thai society safer."
Three days after the school shooting, a former lawmaker was arrested after a shooting at a government office that killed one person and injured another, according to manilatimes.net and kesq.com.
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