At least 38 people are dead after a massacre in Thailand. A former policeman has killed dozens of people in a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand, before shooting dead his wife and child at their home and turning his weapon on himself, police say. It what was one of the world’s deadliest child massacres by a single killer in recent history, most of the children who died in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 kilometres north-east of Bangkok, were stabbed to death, police said. (…) “Because he’s a parent of one of the kids [who goes to the daycare], at first, I thought he was coming to pick up his kids,” said another witness. Police identified the attacker as a former member of the force who was dismissed from his post last year over drug allegations. He was facing trial on a drugs charge. The man had been in court earlier in the day and had then gone to the daycare centre to collect his child, according to police chief Damrongsak Kittiprapas. When he did not find his child there he began the killing spree, Mr Paisal said. “He started shooting, slashing, killing children at the Utai Sawan daycare centre,” he said. Police said that the former police officer had legally purchased the gun he used in the attack, but that he used a knife, mainly, in the killing of the children at the facility.
via avc.net.au: Massacre at daycare centre in Thailand leaves 37 dead, including at least 24 children