{"id":58217,"date":"2026-08-07T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/thailand-school-shooting-pupil-describes-harrowing-moment-teacher-was-shot-in-front-of-her\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:12:31","slug":"thailand-school-shooting-pupil-describes-harrowing-moment-teacher-was-shot-in-front-of-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/thailand-school-shooting-pupil-describes-harrowing-moment-teacher-was-shot-in-front-of-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand school shooting: Pupil describes harrowing moment teacher was shot in front of her"},"content":{"rendered":"


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One 18-year-old student told Reuters he initially thought firecrackers were going off.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Metres from the school gates, paramedics loaded the wounded into ambulances and rushed them to hospital, as milling crowds hugged and cried.<\/p>\n

Rescue worker Kiatikhun Verapongpradith rushed to the scene after hearing children as young as 12 had been hurt.<\/p>\n

“I saw students who had been shot, some in the arm, some in the back, some in the chest. So I rushed to help get them to the hospital first,” the 47-year-old rescue worker told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

One grieving teacher told the BBC his friend was among the dead.<\/p>\n

“She was my age. We went to this school together as students. Then we both became teachers at this school,” the 31-year-old, who declined to give his name, said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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One 18-year-old student told Reuters he initially thought firecrackers were going off. “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.” Metres from the school gates, paramedics loaded the wounded into ambulances and rushed them to hospital, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58219,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58217\/revisions\/58219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}