A teacher who was eight months pregnant was also among those stabbed to death, she said. The attacker forced his way into a locked room where the children were sleeping, Jidapa said. "The shooter came in around lunch time and shot four or five officials at the childcare centre first," Jidapa told Reuters. He said a few children had survived, without giving details.Ībout 30 children were at the facility - a pink, one-storey building surrounded by a lawn and small palm trees - when the attacker arrived, fewer than usual, as heavy rain had kept many people away, said district official Jidapa Boonsom, who was working in a nearby office at the time. We surrounded his house and then found that he committed suicide in his home," Damrongsak Kittiprapas told reporters. "Then he got out and started killing anyone he met along the way with a gun or the knife until he got home. Thailand's police chief said the perpetrator had tried to break into the premises and had mostly used a knife in the killings. Police said the attacker's weapon was a 9 mm pistol and it had been obtained legally. "He didn’t say anything, he shot at the door while the kids were sleeping," another woman said, becoming distraught. "He was heading towards me and I begged him for mercy, I didn’t know what to do," one distraught woman told ThaiPBS, fighting back tears. Abandoned juice boxes were scattered across the floor. Photographs taken at the daycare centre by the rescue team and shared with Reuters showed the tiny bodies of those killed laid out on blankets. 'I BEGGED HIM FOR MERCY'Ī Reuters photographer also saw late on Thursday the body of the shooter, Panya Khamrapm, being moved in a bodybag from a van to a police station in the province.
"We’ve been through it before, but this incident is most harrowing because they are little kids."Ī large van that police said contained bodies of 22 people, mostly children, was seen by Reuters departing from a police station headed towards the city of Udon Thani, 80 km (50 miles) away, where autopsies would be performed. From the first step when I went in, it felt harrowing," Piyalak Kingkaew, an experienced emergency worker heading the first responder team, told Reuters. "He started shooting, slashing, killing children at the Uthai Sawan daycare centre," Paisal said. When he did not find his child there, he began the killing spree, Paisal said.
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