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Nursery massacre families pray to free children's souls

A monk leads a prayer at a makeshift memorial outside the day care centre which was the scene of a mass shooting in Uthai Sawan, in the province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, on Sunday. (Reuters photo)

Mourning families knelt Sunday outside a nursery in northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province where their children were murdered, performing a Buddhist ceremony to put their souls at rest.

Sacked police officer Panya Khamrab killed 36 people -- 24 of them children -- on Thursday in a gun and knife rampage in one of the kingdom's worst-ever mass killings.

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