Thailand Daycare Attack: Thais mourn victims of child-care centre shooting

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Grieving relatives of the Thailand massacre victims gathered at the child day care centre in Thailand on Friday where a day earlier a former policeman had slain 34 people in a knife

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Traumatised parents and relatives of the victims created a makeshift altar of flowers, juice boxes and a stuffed animal at the day care center.

By afternoon, bouquets of white roses and carnations lined the wall outside, along with five tiny juice boxes, bags of corn chips and a stuffed animal.

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Police identified the attacker as Panya Kamrap, 34, a former police sergeant who was fired earlier this year because of a drug charge involving methamphetamine.

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Kampar had reportedly gone to the daycare centre to collect his child after attending a court session earlier in the day, police spokesperson Paisal Luesomboon told broadcaster ThaiPBS.

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Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha spoke to relatives of victims at a mass shooting at a nursery in Na Klang in Thailand's northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province on October 7.

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