Boy killed after homemade gun goes off in class

Medics administer CPR on an injured student following an incident inside a computer classroom at Wat Lad Pla Duk School in Nonthaburi on Thursday afternoon. The boy was later pronounced dead, and a classmate confessed to having accidentally discharged a homemade pen gun. (Photo supplied)

A 15-year-old boy was killed when a homemade pen gun went off accidentally in a classroom at a Nonthaburi school, in an incident that students and teachers initially tried to blame on a computer “explosion”.

The incident took place on Thursday afternoon in a computer classroom at Wat Lad Pla Duk School in tambon Bang Rak Pattana of Bang Bua Thong district, said Pol Capt Saiyon Thongtha, a duty officer at the Bang Bua Thong police station.