泰国降半旗，联合国秘书长致哀

Thailand was in mourning on Friday after 38 people were killed, most of them young children, in a brutal gun and knife attack at a preschool centre in the country’s northeast.

当天，联合国秘书长古特雷斯通过发言人发表声明，对发生在泰国的恶性伤害事件感到“震惊和哀伤”。古特雷斯向受害者亲属致哀，并祝愿伤者早日康复。

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is shocked and saddened by the horrific mass shooting, his spokesperson said Thursday.

"The secretary-general extends his condolences to the families of the victims and wishes those injured a speedy recovery," Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman, said in a statement.

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Authorities said the suspect entered the child care center after noon in the northeastern Nongbua Lamphu town.

Twenty-two children and two adults were killed in the building before the assailant fled, according to a police statement. But he continued to shoot people from his car, said Major General Paisal Luesomboon.

He killed another two children and nine adults outside the child care center.

Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old former police officer Panya Kamrap. Paisel told PPTV in an interview that he was fired from the force earlier this year because of drug related offenses. He used multiple weapons, including a handgun, a shotgun and a knife, during the attack, Paisel said.

After arriving home, he killed his wife and child and then himself.