The toll of the attack on a nursery in northern Thailand, in Na Klang, has risen to “at least 30 dead”, including 23 children, a police colonel in Nong Bua Lamphu province said Thursday.
Police have launched a wanted poster to find the main suspect, a 34-year-old former police officer, on the run with a rifle, pistol and knife in his possession.
The attack began at 12:30 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. GMT) in a nursery, before the assailant fled by car and hit several pedestrians, according to Colonel Jakkapat Vijitraithaya.
The children killed are between two and three years old, he said.
A shooting perpetrated by an army officer, who had argued with a superior, occurred in February 2020 in Thailand in a shopping center in Nakhon Ratchasima, killing 29 people.