AdvertisementWorldAsiaTragedy Barricading doors, hiding under tables: Students tell of fleeing mass shooting at their Thai school Harry Jiaravongtrakul Zach Hope and August 8, 2026 — 5:37pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Wannapa outside her family’s shop on the outskirts of Bangkok. AdvertisementThe mass school shooting, something more associated with America than the “Land of Smiles”, is the talk of the country and the neighbourhood. On the fifth floor, below the initial volley of shots, 14-year-old Kwarchai and his classmates first thought someone was outside, shooting at birds. A coffin containing the body of a victim of the school shooting is carried at a hospital in Bangkok on Saturday.