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Newshour: 06/10/2022 20:06 GMT: Gunman kills 38 in attack on Thai nursery school

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Gunman kills 38 in attack on Thai nursery school

06/10/2022 20:06 GMT

06/10/2022 20:06 GMT: Gunman kills 38 in attack on Thai nursery school

BBC World Service - Newshour, Gunman kills 38 in attack on Thai nursery school

38 people, mostly young children, killed by a gunman at a nursery school in Thailand

A former policeman kills 38 after walking into a nursery in northern Thailand armed with a gun and a knife, when many of the children were having an afternoon nap. The assailant also killed his wife and son before turning the gun on himself.

Also in the programme: a report by the United Nations says that - in just twelve months - the Afghan economy has shrunk by about a quarter, wiping out ten years of economic growth.  It says that 19 out of every 20 Afghans now live below the poverty line -- with many families simply unable to feed their children properly; and the 82-year old French writer Annie Ernaux, wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her uncompromising - and highly personal - novels exploring time and memory, are considered contemporary classics in France.

(Photo: Ruamkatanyu Foundation's rescue workers carrying a coffin containing a mass shooting victim at a childcare center in Nong Bua Lamphu province, northeastern Thailand, 6 October 2022. Credit: EPA/Ruamkatanyu Foundation handout photo)

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