Gunman who entered southern Thai school detained, hostages freed

2026-02-11 - 12:26

At least three people were injured in the incident. (EPA Images pic) BANGKOK: A gunman who fired shots at a school in Hat Yai district in southern Thailand on Wednesday has been detained and all the people who were held hostage have been freed, a police official told Reuters. An 18-year-old man entered the Patongprathankiriwat School in Songkhla Province’s Hat Yai earlier on Wednesday with a gun, the provincial administration said on social media. “The perpetrator has been captured,” Deputy Superintendent Wichian Soboon told Reuters. At least three people were injured in the incident, a second police official said. Gun violence and ownership are not uncommon in Thailand, where a former police officer killed 36 people, including 22 children, in a gun-and-knife attack at a nursery in the country’s east in 2022.