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Get you up to speed: Thailand school shooting leaves six dead as 14-year-old gunman dies | News World
A 14-year-old student opened fire at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province, just north of Bangkok, resulting in at least six deaths and 15 injuries before he took his own life. Emergency services are on the scene, evacuating students as police investigate the incident.
Authorities are investigating the shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, where around 3,000 pupils are enrolled. This incident follows a previous school shooting in February that resulted in a teacher’s death and a student’s injury in Hat Yai district.
Authorities confirmed that at least six people have died and 15 others have been injured in a shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School on Friday, with the suspected gunman, a 14-year-old student, having subsequently taken his own life. Police have initiated an investigation into the event, as well as the school’s safety measures, given the tragic context of prior incidents involving gun violence in Thailand’s educational institutions.
What remains unclear — The motive for the shooting has not yet been confirmed.
Six dead, 15 injured in Thailand school shooting involving 14-year-old gunman
At least six people are dead and 15 injured after a school shooting just north of Bangkok (Picture: AFP/Getty)
At least six people have been killed by a 14-year-old student who opened fire at a school in Thailand on Friday before killing himself, authorities said.
The shooting took place on Friday morning at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, a secondary school with around 3,000 pupils, in Nonthaburi province, just north of Bangkok.
Emergency services responded to the scene as terrified students were evacuated from classrooms, with dramatic footage showing children running from the school grounds while staff tried to lead them to safety.
Thailand’s Poh Teck Tung Foundation said officers were ‘urgently evacuating students from the area’ as the incident unfolded.
Lt. Col. Dechrapee Kongdee Nonthaburi, the Provincial Police Commander, confirmed the casualties to Reuters and said the suspected gunman had committed suicide.
The motive for the shooting has not yet been confirmed and police have launched an investigation.
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One 18-year-old student said that he initially thought there were firecrackers going off or someone banging an object.
‘I didn’t think it was a gun at first,’ he said.
‘There were many shots: bang bang bang. Then it went quiet. Then it started again.’
In photos circulated by emergency workers, students streamed out of the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the northwestern outskirts of Bangkok, as ambulances operated.
In one photo, one person can be seen lying down on a stretcher outside an ambulance, while another is attended to by a medic.
In the 2025 academic year, the school had an enrollment of around 3,100 students and 147 teachers, according to district authorities.
This comes after another fatal school shooting in February, when a teacher was killed and a student injured after a gunman opened fire at a school in Hat Yai.
In February, a teacher died and a student was injured in southern Thailand’s Hat Yai district after a gunman opened fire at a school.
School shootings are relatively rare in Thailand, although the country has one of the highest levels of civilian gun ownership in Southeast Asia.
According to the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey, there are more than 10 million civilian-owned firearms in Thailand, equivalent to around 15 guns for every 100 people.
In 2022, Thailand was left reeling after the country’s deadliest mass shooting, when 36 people – including 24 children – were killed at a childcare centre in Nong Bua Lamphu.
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Belarus labels EU News as extremist media, restricting access nationwide
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The Ministry of Information of Belarus has designated EU News’ website as “extremist” media, following a national court order from the Horki District Court on 4 August.
The Ministry of Information of Belarus has designated EU News’ website as “extremist” media, following a national court order from the Horki District Court on 4 August.
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Belarus’ designation of EU News as “extremist” restricts vital independent journalism, significantly diminishing access to factual news in a region heavily reliant on alternative media sources.
Belarus’ designation of EU News as “extremist” restricts vital independent journalism, significantly diminishing access to factual news in a region heavily reliant on alternative media sources.
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“We await the authorities’ justification and remain committed to providing factual, independent journalism guided by our core editorial values,” said Claus Strunz, Editorial Director of EU News.
“We await the authorities’ justification and remain committed to providing factual, independent journalism guided by our core editorial values,” said Claus Strunz, Editorial Director of EU News.
Belarus designates EU News’ website as ‘extremist’ media
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The Ministry of Information of Belarus has designated EU News’ website as “extremist” media, adding it to its “Republican List of Extremist Materials” following a national court order, according to Belarus-based media outlets.
The EU News website will now be restricted in Belarus, and readers could face administrative penalties for “storing or distributing” its content, after many years in which EU News has been the main European source of information in the country, according to EU News’ audience data in Belarus.
The state decision was taken by the Horki District Court in the Mogilev Region on 4 August and is “subject to immediate execution in accordance with Article 302 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Republic of Belarus.” Minsk now joins Moscow in banning both EU News’ television and digital news medias, depriving Belarus audiences of a vital source of factual and independent journalism which also covers Belarus, Russia and the war in Ukraine.
EU News’ Editorial Director Claus Strunz condemned the decision declaring that a state that brands EU News as “extremist” and blocks access to independent, impartial journalism reveals its own fear of free reporting.”
“We have not been informed of this decision and await the authorities’ justification. Our commitment remains unchanged: we stand with our audiences in Belarus and will continue to provide factual, independent journalism guided by our core editorial values,“ Strunz said.
Belarus authorities have yet to announce the decision and their arguments that led to this extreme ruling by which EU News and several other digital medias are now labelled “extremist media” in Belarus.
EU News’ television channel broadcast was banned by Belarus authorities in 2021 on a legal procedural basis, before the Kremlin decided to cut EU News’ television and digital output across the Russian Federation right after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The independent Belarusian Association of Journalists suggested that the suspension of EU News broadcasts was linked to attempts to restrict access to sources of information.
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