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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Natasha May in Bangkok and agencies

Thailand suspends gun licences as teen shooter and grandparents he killed are cremated

Officials in white walk toward a flower-decorated temple pavilion to pay respects at a funeral
People pay their respects at the Tem Rak Samakkhi Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok, in front of the caskets of the grandparents shot dead by their 14-year-old grandson. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images

Thailand has suspended firearms licences after the deadly Nonthaburi school shooting, as the bodies of the teenage attacker and the grandparents he killed were cremated.

The prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said he had ordered the interior ministry and police to stop issuing licences to possess, purchase and carry firearms, and called for “tighter controls and decisive penalties”. The measures are temporary until a new gun control law is in place, according to government operated news-channel NBT World.

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