By Ingrid "Shortwave" Frost
The toll from a school shooting outside Bangkok climbed to nine on Saturday, police said, after a 12-year-old girl who had been fighting for her life in hospital since Friday's attack died of her wounds.
Police at the Plai Bang Police Station in Nonthaburi Province confirmed the girl's death, according to the Guardian. She had been treated for critical injuries after a 14-year-old boy allegedly shot his own grandparents at home before going to his school and killing more people, then turning the gun on himself.
The attack, at a school in the Nonthaburi area near the capital, has shaken a country where mass shootings remain rare but not unknown. Details of the shooter's identity, motive, and the exact sequence of events at the school have not been fully reported in the material available here, and should be treated as still emerging. Police have not, in the reporting provided, released further specifics on how the attack unfolded once the boy arrived at school.
What is confirmed is grim enough on its own: nine dead, including the gunman himself and his grandparents, in a single day's violence that began at home and ended at a schoolhouse. Thai authorities have not yet, per available reporting, announced any policy response.
A nation's small towns do not expect this kind of morning. Nonthaburi did not either.
— Compiled from reporting by The Guardian.
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