FOG BLOG WORLD NEWS LOG: 24 DAY CARE CHILDREN MURDERED BY EX COP IN THAILAND!
Thailand massacre: ex-cop kills 24 children in knife and gun rampage
Total death toll including shooter is 37 - police
Attacker kills 24 children, 13 adults in rampage
Thai daycare centre was for children aged 2-5
Most child victims were stabbed - police
Attacker killed his wife, child, and shot himself
NA KLANG, Thailand, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A former policeman killed 34 people, including 23 children, during a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in northeast Thailand on Thursday, police said, before later shooting dead his wife and child at home and turning his weapon on himself.
In one of the world's worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history, most of the children who died at the daycare centre in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 km (310 miles) northeast of Bangkok, were stabbed to death, police said. The age range of children at the daycare centre was from two to five years, a local official told Reuters.
Police identified the attacker as a former member of the force who was dismissed from his post last year over drug allegations and 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, police spokesperson Paisal Luesomboon told broadcaster ThaiPBS.
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