Student shoots six ᴅᴇᴀᴅ and leaves 15 injured in Bangkok mᴀssacre

A student has sH๏τ and killed his grandparents at their home before opening fire at a school in Thailand, killing six others and turning the gun on himself. 

The gunman unleashed his ᴅᴇᴀᴅly rampage from inside the Debsirin Nonthaburi School on the outskirts of Bangkok, shortly after 10am local time on Friday. 

Pupils streamed out of the high school as the wounded were loaded onto ambulances and teachers hugged each other and cried. 

In pH๏τos circulated by emergency workers, one person is seen lying down on a stretcher outside an ambulance, while a medic tends to another.

Lt. Col. Dechrapee Kongdee, the Nonthaburi provincial police commander, confirmed earlier that the ⁠suspected gunman, understood to be a 14-year-old student, had ​taken his own life. 

The suspected shooter also allegedly killed his grandparents, whom he lived with, before going to the school. They were found ᴅᴇᴀᴅ at home, Thailand’s public health minister said. 

Police said that the motive for the shooting was still being investigated and that the gun was believed to have belonged to his grandfather, who was a teacher. 

The suspect was said to be an avid gamer, while a teacher at the school said that he was a ‘good kid with good study records’, and that he was not known to be aggressive. 

A student reunites with a relative after being evacuated from Debsirin Nonthaburi School

An injured teacher receives medical attention inside an ambulance at Debsirin Nonthaburi School

Students flee from the Debsirin Nonthaburi School after the shooting took place

A witness told reporters that students hid inside a classroom while they heard gunsH๏τs from another building before police officers knocked on the door and cleared a way for them to leave the building.

The suspect was reportedly seen reloading ammunition inside the building, according to sources at the scene. 

PH๏τos published by local media show the suspect wearing a purple school uniform and carrying a black cross-body bag, with several bullet casings visible on the ground. 

Armed response units were deployed to the school while students and staff were evacuated from the campus.

One 18-year-old student told Reuters he initially thought firecrackers were going off or someone banging an object.

‘I didn’t think it was a gun at first,’ he said. 

‘There were many sH๏τs: bang bang bang. Then it went quiet. Then it started again.’

Emergency worker Kiatikhun Verapongpradith, 47, described arriving as the shooting was ongoing and his team treated students with injuries in the back, chest and arms.

They found a male teacher lying ᴅᴇᴀᴅ on an upper floor of the school, and in another room they found a female teacher with wounds in her chest and arm.

‘We gave CPR for about 30 minutes and rushed her to the hospital as we could not get her heart rate up, but we tried our best,’ he said.

In the 2025 academic year, the school had an enrollment of around 3,100 students and 147 teachers, according to district authorities.

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Terrified pupils climbed from windows during a school shooting in Thailand this morning

Medical personnel perform CPR on the shooter who died by suicide

Armed police officer enters Debsirin Nonthaburi School, following a shooting incident at the school

The suspect was reportedly seen reloading ammunition inside the building, according to sources at the scene. Pictured: The gun used in the shooting

Deputy Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee  said the suspect used a handgun (pictured) and the interior ministry was investigating how the student obtained it

Students run as they evacuate from Debsirin Nonthaburi School, the site of a shooting incident, in Bang Kruai district in Nonthaburi province on the outskirts of Bangkok

A schoolgirl cries outside her school where deaths and injuries were reported after a shooting in Thailand’s Nonthaburi province, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026

Emergency responders walk with a stretcher outside a school following a shooting in Bang Kruai district

Thai police officers gather inside the compound of Debsirin Nonthaburi School, following a shooting incident at the school

Police said that the motive for the shooting was still being investigated and that the gun was believed to have belonged to his grandfather, who was a teacher

Police have been gathering evidence at the suspect’s home, Thailand’s deputy interior minister Polapee Suwanchawee said. 

Deputy Education Minister Akkharanan Kannakittinan said in a statement he was coordinating to provide ᴀssistance.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul offered his condolences and said he had ordered relevant officials to take care of the victims. 

‘It’s such a terrible incident. It should never have happened. How could this happen in our country?,’ he told reporters at Bangkok’s Government House. 

The Debsirin School is a well-known secondary school in Thailand and has branches across the country.

The original Debsirin School in Bangkok was founded by Thai King Chulalongkorn in 1885. 

Its school in Nonthaburi, where the shooting has taken place, is situated in the northwestern outskirts of Bangkok.

Following Friday’s shooting, an opposition leader called for Thai authorities to review the country’s gun control measures.  

Thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the region, with around 10 million firearms estimated to be in circulation – one for every seven inhabitants. 

Police stand outside the home of the alleged gunman

The suspect is said to have sH๏τ his grandparents at their home 

The wife of a teacher reacts at the school following the shooting 

Emergency responders stand by on the school premises after the shooting

Forensic police walk at the scene of the school shooting

‘Although the motive behind the attack remains unclear at this time, an act of violence in an educational insтιтution, which should be one of the safest places in our society, serves as a stark reminder for Thai society to seriously and systematically review gun control measures,’ Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, leader of the People’s Party, wrote in a Facebook post.

In February, police sH๏τ and arrested a teenage shooter who opened fire at a school in the south of the country in February, leaving the school principal ᴅᴇᴀᴅ and two students injured.

The teen had used a police officer’s weapon in the shooting.

A local police chief said at the time that the suspect was hospitalised for psychiatric treatment in December and had been discharged.

The teen stabbed a police officer with a knife and stole his weapon – a 9mm pistol – just before the incident, and then used it to carry out the attack.

In 2022, an ex-policeman armed with a gun and a knife stormed into a nursery in the country’s north and murdered 24 children and 12 adults, one of Thailand’s ᴅᴇᴀᴅliest mᴀssacres.

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