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Families mourn Thai nursery dead ahead of king's visit
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Sittipong Taothawong (left) comforts his wife Kanjana Buakumchan as she holds their child's milk bottle and blanket while standing outside the nursery in Na Klang in Thailand's northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province on Oct. 7, 2022, the day after a former police officer killed at least 37 people in a mass shooting at the site. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)
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eeping, grief-stricken families gathered Friday outside a Thai nursery where an ex-policeman murdered two dozen children in one of the kingdom's worst mass killings.
Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha will later visit survivors of the attack that left at least 37 people dead, including the attacker's wife and child.
Around the small low-slung building, where only two days ago scores of preschool children played, officials in white uniforms laid a large floral wreath on behalf of the king.
A line of heartbroken parents placed white roses on the steps of the nursery as the baking sun bore down on them.
Buarai Tanontong's two three-year-old grandsons were among those killed at the nursery when the attacker burst through the door.
"I couldn't sleep. I didn't think that it would be my two grandsons," she said, clutching her inconsolable daughter's shoulder.
Overnight, coffins carrying the bodies of the victims arrived at a morgue in Udon Thani, the closest city to the rural district ripped apart by Thursday's three-hour rampage.
