BANGKOK—A former police officer killed 38 people, including 22 children, in a knife and gun rampage at a day care center in Thailand on Thursday, later shooting dead his wife and child at their home before turning his weapon on himself, police said.
The children at the day care center in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 kilometers (310 miles) northeast of Bangkok, were mostly stabbed to death, they said.
Police identified the attacker as a former member of the force who was dismissed from his post last year over drug allegations and he was facing trial on a drugs charge.
The man had been in court earlier in the day and had then gone to the day care center to collect his child, police spokesperson Paisal Luesomboon told broadcaster ThaiPBS….