Second school shooting this year raises questions on gun control – againpublished at 08:46 BST
Jonathan Head
Reporting from Bangkok
We’re hearing that the shooter seemed to be targeting teachers. The shooting went on for about an hour before the perpetrator, a 14-year-old student at the school, appears to have turned the gun on himself.
The boyfriend of one of the teachers who was killed is very distressed. “This shouldn’t have happened,” he told reporters while trying to hold back his tears.
The Debsirin Nonthaburi School is located in a large, urban residential and commercial area to the north of Bangkok. A lot of people commute from here to the capital, and this is a very well known school here, so this incident will have a very profound effect on the community.
This is the second school shooting in Thailand this year. In February, a school principal and a female student were shot by an 18-year-old gunman during a school siege in southern Thailand.
In October 2022, a 34-year-old resident in the eastern Nong Bua Lamphu province killed 37 people, most of them preschoolers.
The real issue here is that while there are restrictions on gun ownership in Thailand, people can still acquire guns – legally or illegally – with relative ease. Thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in South East Asia.
Questions about gun control have been raised before and it’s not clear if authorities have taken any significant action to curb gun crime.
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