Bangkok: At least two persons, including a student, were killed and several others injured in a firing incident at a school near Bangkok in Thailand.
The shooter is suspected to be a student of the school. Authorities said that he turned the weapon on himself after shooting others. Several people have been hospitalised.
The incident occurred at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the northwestern outskirts of Bangkok, on Friday morning. The exact cause of the violence is not known.
Lt Col Pasakorn Chaitawiwong, head of the Plai Bang subdistrict police department, told Reuters that the exact casualty figures are being ascertained.
The police said that the incident took place in the Bang Kruai district of the Nonthaburi province. While no more details were provided, there was panic among students and teachers, as well as local residents.
In photos circulated by emergency workers, students streamed out of the school as ambulances operated. In one photograph, a person is seen lying on a stretcher outside an ambulance, while another is attended to by a medic.
In February a teacher died and a student was injured in southern Thailand’s Hat Yai district after a gunman opened fire at a school.
