{"id":182920,"date":"2022-10-06T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182920"},"modified":"2022-10-06T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:05:43","slug":"ex-cop-kills-22-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/ex-cop-kills-22-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-cop kills 22 children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least 22 children were among 34 people killed in a\u00a0mass shooting at a child care\u00a0center in northeastern Thailand on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Authorities immediately launched a manhunt for the suspected gunman, later identified by Thailand\u2019s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) as a 34-year-old former policeman involved in an ongoing court case for allegedly selling drugs.<\/p>\n

Investigators later confirmed he had killed his wife and his stepson before taking his own life. It is unclear if the gunman and his family are included in the current death toll.<\/p>\n

The suspect had appeared in court in Nong Bua Lamphu province hours before \u201copening fire while the kids were sleeping,\u201d according to Maj. Gen. Jirapob Puridet of the CIB.<\/p>\n

His two-year-old stepson was enrolled at the center he attacked Thursday, but was not present while the attack was carried out, according to a local police chief.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The shooter] went to look for his two-year-old son, but the boy was not there \u2026 so he started shooting as well as stabbing people at the nursery,\u201d police spokesperson Maj. General Paisan Luesomboon told CNN.<\/p>\n

The mass shooting took place at the Child Development Center in\u00a0<\/strong>Nong Bua Lamphu province\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>Uthaisawan Na Klang district, according to a statement from the prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

The province, located approximately 540 kilometers (around 335 miles) northeast of Bangkok, is a largely peaceful and quiet area, and is not known for violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prime minister has expressed his condolences on the shooting incident,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

Puridet told CNN the former officer was dismissed from duty and \u201ccharged with selling narcotics\u201d last year.<\/p>\n

Gun ownership in Thailand is relatively high compared with other countries in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

There were more than 10.3 million civilian owned firearms in Thailand, or around 15 guns for every 100 people, according to 2017 data from the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey (SAS). Approximately 6.2 million of those guns are legally registered, according to SAS.<\/p>\n

Thailand ranks as the Southeast Asian country with the second-highest gun homicides after the Philippines, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington\u2019s 2019 Global Burden of Disease database.<\/p>\n

Mass shootings in the country, however, are rare but a 2020 incident saw a soldier kill 29 people in\u00a0a shooting spree\u00a0that began at a military site and then sent shoppers hunting for cover after the gunman entered a mall.<\/p>\n

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At least 22 children were among 34 people killed in a\u00a0mass shooting at a child care\u00a0center in northeastern Thailand on Thursday. Authorities immediately launched a manhunt for the suspected gunman, later identified by Thailand\u2019s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) as a 34-year-old former policeman involved in an ongoing court case for allegedly selling drugs. Investigators later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182927,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182920\/revisions\/182927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}