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Duangphan Patphaothanun is wandering outside a childcare centre, clutching a bag full of toys.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 64-year-old grandmother wants to know when she can see her grandson, so she can place his most treasured possessions with him in his coffin – the bag includes a large plastic dinosaur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three-year-old Pattarawut is among the 23 children who died on Thursday in a gun and knife attack at a childcare centre in Thailand’s north-east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former policeman had stormed the building, killing children as young as two while they slept, leaving at least 37 people dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 90 children usually attend the centre but because of poor weather and a bus breakdown only 24 of them were there on Thursday. Only one child has survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police say the 34-year-old attacker – a local named Panya Kamrab – killed his wife and his step-son, before killing himself after a manhunt. His step-son used to attend the centre but hadn’t been for the past month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The motive for the attack is not yet known. But police said Kamrab was fired from his job in June for drug use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “When I heard the news about the shooting, I just fainted,” Duangphan said. On her phone are photos of Pattarawut, taken just hours before the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like many childcare centres, this one too regularly posts photo updates for parents to see – the images show happy, smiling faces, writing or finishing a drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duangphan was one of several grieving relatives who had gathered outside the centre in Nong Bua Lamphua province on Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another grandmother, 46-year-old Nipha Lawongsechaison, says she lost both a grandson and granddaughter in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I am full of such pain… [and] anger because I cannot do anything,” she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She’s not the only one. Others too say they are filled with grief – and unanswered questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Why did he take it [out] on the children? Why kill them when they did nothing to him?” says 27-year-old Naliwan Dungkhet, whose two-year-old nephew Captain also died in the attack. He was just a month away from his third birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Duangphan Patphaothanun is wandering outside a childcare centre, clutching a bag full of toys. The 64-year-old grandmother wants to know when she can see her grandson, so she can place his most treasured possessions with him in his coffin – the bag includes a large plastic dinosaur. Three-year-old Pattarawut is among the 23 children who died on Thursday in a gun and knife attack at a childcare centre in Thailand’s north-east. A former policeman had stormed the building, killing children as young as two while they slept, leaving at least 37 people dead. More than 90 children usually… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27781,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions\/27781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}