Massacre of children in Thailand in a knife and gun rampage, condolences pour in

It was a sad day for Thailand when a former police sergeant, discharged over drug allegations, shot and knifed children and staff in a daycare center. The assailant targeted the children, aged between two and five. He slashed them to death, and shot the adults. It happens to be one of the world's worst death tolls of children massacred by a single killer. The killer was facing trial on a drugs charge. The tragedy happened in Uthai Sawan, a town about 310 miles northeast of Bangkok, the capital of the largely Buddhist country. After committing the massacre, he left the daycare centre, went home and shot dead his wife and son before taking his own life. Families traumatised by Thailand attack cling to slain children's toys. The national police chief Damrongsak Kittipraphat said - "The reasons are probably unemployment, no money, and family issues," he said, adding that the attacker and his wife had had "longstanding problems."

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha met the families of the victims. He lay flowers and observed a moment of silence in front of the centre. King Maha also Vajiralongkorn visited the hospital. The Vatican said Pope Francis was deeply saddened by the "horrific attack." He condemned it as an "act of unspeakable violence against innocent children." Incidentally, there have been earlier instances of death in schools in other parts of the world. In Norway in 2011, Anders Breivik killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a summer camp. Later, in 2012, it was the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut. In 1996, the toll as of 16 at Dunblane in Scotland and 19 at a school in Uvalde, Texas, this year. As far as Thailand goes, it has strict gun laws but gun ownership is high when compared with some Southeast Asian countries. Moreover, illegal weapons are common, with many brought in from strife-torn neighbours.

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The Thai police are gradually zeroing in on the bombers and, after nabbing one suspect, they are now after two new suspects — a Thai woman and a foreign man of unknown nationality. The police have released a photograph of the woman's Thai identification card. The photograph is showing a young woman in a black headscarf. Additionally, they have released a sketch of the man of unknown nationality.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 31 august 2015.

The bomb blast had taken place on Aug. 17 at the Erawan Shrine in which 20 people were killed - more than half of whom were foreigners. In addition, another more than 120 were injured.
The Thai police have already arrested a man from an apartment in Bangkok's outskirts and have seized bomb-making equipment like detonators, ball bearings and a metal pipe believed to be a bomb casing.
In addition, some more bomb-making materials were found in a second nearby apartment located in a neighborhood known as Min Buri. This was rented by the Thai woman identified as 26-year-old Wanna Suansun.
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The Erawan Shrine of Lord Brahma in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, is a major tourist attraction and a powerful bomb blast near this temple has left at least 27 dead and more than 100 injured. The temple is located in a crowded business district and surrounded by three major shopping malls.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 18 August 2015.

There are four foreigners who died in the twin blasts, two of them have been identified as Chinese and a Philipino. There are 117 others injured and the death toll could increase because of the large number of injured.
The Erawan Shrine is situated in downtown Chidlom district and is on a main road through the commercial hub of Bangkok. The first explosion was from an improvised explosive device that was fastened to a utility pole in front of the temple at the Ratchaprasong intersection. Immediately after that detonation, there was a motorbike bomb blast that resulted in two nearby taxis to explode.
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. It seems he had hired 11 Thai surrogate mothers to carry his children, including four sets of twins. Police have not determined the biological mothers. He is currently at the heart of a multinational probe by Interpol after nine of his children were discovered in a 'baby factory' in an upmarket district of Bangkok. When the police raided the flat, they discovered nine babies living with nine paid nannies. The rooms were furnished only with bouncy chairs and play pens, and packed with baby bottles and nappies. Subsequent investigations have revealed that Mitsutoki Shigeta is the father of seven other babies. Interpol offices in Japan, Cambodia, Hong Kong and India have been asked to probe Mr Shigeta's background because he travels to these countries very frequently. In fact, he had made 41 trips to Thailand since 2010 and on several occasions he travelled to nearby Cambodia, where he took four of his babies.
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