‘I saw my grandson’s name and I fainted’: grief engulfs town after Thailand nursery attack

Grief-stricken families gathered outside a Thai nursery where an ex-policeman killed 37 people. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images

On Friday morning, in the baking sun, grieving parents filed in a line to leave flowers outside the Uthai Sawan nursery school in northern Thailand. Women dressed in black and with heads bowed each placed a white rose on the entrance steps.

A mother, standing at the side, clutched her son’s red blanket and his milk bottle, still half-full.