Thailand mourns after 37 killed in nursey attack

Thailand is in mourning following the devastating attack on a daycare centre that has left at least 37 dead, most of which were children.

The attacker was an ex-cop who had been fired from the force in June on drug offences. He used a knife and gun to carry out the horrors. Most of the children killed were stabbed to death.

Of the 37 people killed, 23 of them were children.

After he attacked the nursey he returned to his home where he killed his wife and young son – who had previously attended the daycare centre.

His motives for the crime have not yet been established.

Parents gathered outside the centre on Friday morning, crying and clutching their children’s toys.

Flags across the country are at half-mast as the country tries to make sense of the horrors of yesterday’s events. Overnight, pink and white coffins adorned with gold, bearing the bodies of the children were brought to a hospital morgue in Udon Thani and laid out in rows. Mass shootings are rare in Thailand, though gun ownership rates are relatively high for the region.