A heavily pregnant teacher and twin boys are among 38 victims of a horrific nursery massacre by a former policeman in Thailand.
Supaporn Pramongmuk, 26, was eight months pregnant when her life was brutally cut short when Panya Khamrab carried out his sick shooting spree.
Then former Police Lieutenant, who was dismissed from the force for illicit drug use, also killed his wife, child and himself after the rampage in Nong Bua Lamphu, some 333 miles north-north-east of Bangkok, on Thursday.
Seksan Sriraj, 28, Ms Pramongmuk's heartbroken husband said: “I cried until I had no more tears coming out of my eyes. They are running through my heart.
“My wife was doing her duty as a teacher to the fullest capacity.
"She’s now a teacher in heaven. My baby boy is now taking care of his mother in heaven. I still cannot come to terms with it.
"What is the perpetrator’s heart made of?” He also posted a sonogram image of their baby who was due later in the year.
Pink and white coffins with gold embellishment which held the bodies of the children killed were loaded onto a truck late on Thursday and driven away in the darkness.
Thai government buildings flew flags at half mast on Friday to mourn the death of those who died in the tragic massacre which left the country shocked and seeking answers.
Emergency services and rescue workers were also seen carrying coffins containing the bodies of victims at Udon Thani hospital.
After killing the young children with a knife, the 34-year-old murderer then pulled a gun at people as he drove away, according to PPTV, a local TV station.
A local official said the age range of children at the daycare centre ranged from two to five years.
The young victims include twins Weerapat and Weeraphon Nuatkao who were just three.
The aunt of a three-year-old boy who died said: "I came and I saw two bodies in front of the school and I immediately knew that my kid was already dead."
She had been looking after her nephew while his parents worked in Bangkok.
"It's a scene that nobody wants to see. From the first step when I went in, it felt harrowing," Piyalak Kingkaew, an emergency worker heading the first responder team, told Reuters.
"I don't know (why he did this), but he was under a lot of pressure," the killer's mother told Nation TV, noting drug debt the former policeman had.
Mr Khamrab forced his way into a locked room where the children were sleeping.
One three-year-old who was brutally stabbed has survived and is being treated at Udon Thani Hospital, the country’s health minister said.
They said the youngster was hooked up to a breathing tube and responsive despite suffering a skull fracture.
Tragically, his mother died and his grandmother was injured in the attack.
The massacre is among the worst involving children killed by one person in recent history. Anders Breivik killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a summer camp in Norway in 2011, while the death toll in other cases includes 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut in 2012, 16 at Dunblane in Scotland in 1996 and 19 at a school in Uvalde, Texas, this year.
Thailand’s King, Maha Vajiralongkorn, will place the victims of the attack under royal patronage and will pay for the funerals of those killed and the medical expenses of anyone injured.
Prayuth Chan-Ocha, the Prime Minister, is expected to meet with some of the families on Friday afternoon and the King will visit a hospital in the area in the evening.
