THE Provincial Police Region 4’s spokesman was today (Oct. 10) dismissed from his duty after suddenly laughing during a telephone interview on the mass killing at the child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Amarin TV said this afternoon. Pol. Lt. Gen. Yanyong Wech-osoth, commander of this regional police force, ordered the dismissal of
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Police: CNN team didn’t intend to intrude child care centre
TOP Thai police said this evening (Oct. 9) that the two CNN journalists whose coverage of the mass killing at the child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province was criticised by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand did not intend to intrude with the door being opened and the officials present allowing them to
Read more2 CNN journalists’ visas revoked over child care centre massacre coverage
AFTER the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand criticised a CNN team over its coverage of the mass killing at the child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province that left 36 small children and adults dead, the Thai Immigration police revoked the tourist visas of two CNN journalists who are now being questioned, Matichon
Read more36 temporary crematoria being built for massacre victims
OFFICIALS are building 36 temporary crematoria at the lawn in front of three temples in Nong Bua Lamphu province where a former policeman killed 36 small children and adults at a child care centre last Thursday (Oct. 6), Matichon newspaper said today. The victims will be cremated together on Tuesday (Oct. 11) after three
Read moreNo drugs found in ex-cop killer’s body
THE team of doctors checking the body of a former policeman who killed 37 children and adults at a child care centre yesterday for narcotics have not found any such substances in his system, Naewna newspaper and Tnews.co.th said this afternoon (Oct. 7). It was previously mentioned that Pol. Lt. Col. Panya Khamrab, a
Read moreShooting spree: ‘Not just drugs to blame but problems in military, police systems too’
A PROMINENT academic said today (Oct. 7) that the massacre at a child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province yesterday that left 38 small children and adults dead and 10 others injured was not just due the former policeman being addicted to a drug but also stemmed from problems in the Thai military and
Read more24 out of 36 killed in shooting spree were children
THE MASSACRE at a child care centre at Na Klang district, Nong Bua Lamphu province, this afternoon (Oct. 6) left 36 people dead of whom 24 were small children and 12 others injured, Matichon newspaper said at 4 p.m. Only one child survived the shooting by Pol. Lt. Col. Panya Khamrab, a non-official policeman who
Read moreUpdate: Ex-cop commits suicide after killing over 30 at child care centre
A FORMER policeman drove up in a pickup truck to a child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province this afternoon (Oct. 6) and opened fire at both adults and children there killing over 30 with the majority being children, Sanook.com said. It was later reported that the suspect, Pol. Lt. Col. Panya Khamrab, a
Read moreEx-cop kills 32 in shooting at child care centre
A FORMER policeman drove up to a child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province in a pickup truck this afternoon (Oct. 6) and opened fire at both adults and children there killing 32, Sanook.com said. National police chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak Kittiprapas quickly flew to the upper northeastern province to oversee the hunt for
Read moreDaily Covid count drops to 9,489 as woman threatens to sue govt
THE PUBLIC Health Ministry said this morning (Sept. 28) the daily Covid tally had dropped to 9,489 cases but there were 129 additional deaths while a woman who lost her unborn child after the first Sinovac jab threatens to sue the government, Sanook.com said Of today’s decreased batch of cases, 9,220 were among the
Read moreThai child modelling agent charged over child sex abuse images
By BBC THAI police have arrested the head of a child modelling agency after more than 500,000 indecent images of children were found on computer hard drives. Danudetch “Nene” Saengkaew, 23, has been charged with child sexual abuse and downloading child abuse images. Investigators say the images were found in a raid on the
Read moreSleeping child unharmed after cobra gets stuck on a glue trap
BEING WIDELY shared on Thai social media today (Nov. 15) is the story of a young mother who was shocked to find a cobra stuck on a glue trap just a metre away from her sleeping son, Sanook.com reported. This narrow escape by the small sleeping boy was related on the Facebook page By Kim
Read moreTot in coma after being left in school van for 6 hours
A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy who was left in a school van from 7.30 a.m. in the morning till 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday (August 11) in Phipun district of Nakhon Si Thammarat province is now lying in coma at the intensive care unit of Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital, Sanook.com reported this afternoon (August 14, 2020). The
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