“BRAVE TEACHER”
Sasiphat was shot in the chest and died in hospital from blood loss, the Songkhla department said, calling her a “brave teacher”.
The school shared its “deepest condolences” in a Facebook post.
“Although we have lost her, the memories and kindness she left behind will forever remain in our hearts,” the post said.
A teenage girl was also hospitalised with gunshot wounds and underwent surgery, the Ministry of Public Health said.
A second student was hurt after jumping from the second floor of the school building but had been discharged from hospital, the provincial department said.
Classes would be cancelled for two days while authorities collected evidence and reviewed security measures at the school, it said.
Thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the region, with around 10 million firearms estimated to be in circulation – one for every seven inhabitants.
Past promises of tightening gun laws have not prevented repeated shootings.
In 2022, an ex-policeman armed with a gun and a knife stormed into a nursery in the country’s north and murdered 24 children and 12 adults, one of Thailand’s deadliest massacres.
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