{"id":846457,"date":"2026-08-07T06:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:12:10","slug":"thailand-school-shooting-leaves-six-dead-as-suspect-identified-as-14-year-old-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846457\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand school shooting leaves six dead as suspect identified as 14-year-old student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to know about the shootingpublished at 07:05 BST<\/p>\n<p>07:05 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5e7ed3c0-6e78-439b-b628-721344ed0cb1.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Jonathan Head<br \/>BBC South East Asia Correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shots were reported from the Nonthaburi branch of the Debsirin School on the outskirts of the capital Bangkok, just after 10:00 local time (03:00 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Videos from the scene show staff rushing students out of the classroom and police officers trying to find the shooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the police, he was a 14-year-old student at the school who opened fire on teachers and fellow pupils before taking his own life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The injured were treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This shooting follows another at a school in southern Thailand in February. That incident raised questions, which will now surely be asked again, about the easy availability of guns in Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know about the shootingpublished at 07:05 BST 07:05 BST Jonathan HeadBBC South East Asia Correspondent Shots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-846457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}