Schoolchildren are comforted outside her school where deaths and injuries were reported after a shooting in Thailand's Nonthaburi province
A STUDENT shot and killed three teachers and three students at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday.
Some 15 others were also wounded during the shooting, with two in critical condition.
The shooting happened at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province north-west of the national capital, according to Royal Thai Police spokesperson Trairong Piwpan.
Mr Piwpan later told news broadcaster Channel 3 the shooter was hospitalised in serious condition.
He said the motive was still being investigated, but the gun was believed to have been taken from a member of the student’s family.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul offered his condolences and said he had ordered relevant officials to take care of the victims.
Images from the scene about an hour after the shooting showed people standing outside the school comforting one another and police and first responders walking around inside the school.
A witness told reporters that students hid inside a classroom while they heard gunshots from another building before police officers knocked on the door and cleared a way for them to leave the building.
In February, a 17-year-old stole a gun from police and opened fire at a public high school in southern Thailand, briefly taking people hostage in a two-hour attack that killed one person and injured two others.
