LOOK: Rescue workers arrange coffins containing the body of victims of the mass shooting in a childcare center in Nong Bua Lam Phu, Thailand. RELATED STORY: 📷: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Most of the children who died at the daycare center in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 km northeast of Bangkok, on Thursday were stabbed to death, police said, marking one of the worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history.
"It's a scene that nobody wants to see. From the first step when I went in, it felt harrowing," Piyalak Kingkaew, an emergency worker heading the first responder team, told Reuters.The former policeman had been in court earlier in the day and had then gone to the daycare center to collect his child, police spokesperson Paisal Luesomboon told broadcaster ThaiPBS.
Photographs taken at the daycare center by the rescue team and shared with Reuters showed the tiny bodies of those killed laid out on blankets. Abandoned juice boxes were scattered across the floor.