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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rebecca Ratcliffe, south-east Asia correspondent, and Navaon Siradapuvadol

In wake of nursery killings, Thailand faces reckoning over drugs, guns and mental health

A monk and relatives walk with the coffin of a victim of the nursery mass shooting during the cremation ceremony in Na Klang in northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province
A monk and relatives walk with the coffin of a victim of the nursery mass shooting during the cremation ceremony in Na Klang in northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images

In Uthai Sawan, in north-eastern Thailand, families have said a final goodbye to the victims of the mass killing that horrified the country. The attacker, a former police officer, opened fire and stabbed children at a nursery before returning home to kill his girlfriend, her son and take his own life. He killed 36 people, mostly children.

It was the second mass killing to occur in just a few years in Thailand, where such events have been rare, and the country has been searching for answers over how such a tragedy could have been prevented.

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