A former police officer shot dead at least 35 people, most of them children, when he stormed a nursery in Thailand in one of the kingdom's deadliest mass killings.🇹🇭 Thailand ThailandFiring
Following the attack, gunman Panya Khamrab went home and killed his wife and child before taking his own life, police said.
The 34-year-old former police lieutenant colonel had been dismissed from the force last year for drug use, Vijitraithaya added. Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha said he had ordered the national police chief to"fast-track an investigation". Surging supplies of methamphetamine have sent street prices crashing in Thailand to all-time lows, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.The mass killing comes less than a month after a serving army officer shot dead two colleagues at a military training base in the capital Bangkok.But in the past year, there have been at least two other cases of shooting murders by serving soldiers, according to the Bangkok Post.
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