Gunman who entered southern Thailand school detained, hostages freed, police official says
The Hindu
Gunman detains students and teachers in Thailand school; police confirm no hostages held, three injured.
A gunman who fired shots at a school in Hat Yai district in southern Thailand on Wednesday (February 11, 2026) has been detained and all the people who were held hostage have been freed, a police official told Reuters.
An 18-year-old man entered the Patongprathankiriwat School in Songkhla Province’s Hat Yai earlier on Wednesday (February 11, 2026) with a gun, the provincial administration said on social media.
“The perpetrator has been captured,” Deputy Superintendent Wichian Soboon told Reuters.
At least three people were injured in the incident, a second police official said.
Gun violence and ownership are not uncommon in Thailand, where a former police officer killed 36 people, including 22 children, in a gun-and-knife attack at a nursery in the country’s east in 2022.
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