Thai schools step up security after deadly shooting
A teacher uses a metal detector to screen for weapons and checks students’ bags as they enter a school in Bangkok on Monday. | REUTERS
Aug 14, 2026
Bangkok – Students stood quietly outside their Bangkok school Friday as teachers checked their bags, pockets and even pencil cases under new security measures introduced after last week’s deadly shooting.
Thailand’s government has ordered schools nationwide to step up controls following the Aug. 7 attack near Bangkok, when a 14-year-old killed his grandparents, five school staff and a pupil before turning the gun on himself.
“An incident like this should not have happened in a school,” headteacher Suparong Sawangngamwong said after overseeing the new checks at Bangkok’s Sawasdee Wittaya School.
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