{"id":49142,"date":"2022-10-07T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/oct\/07\/he-used-a-knife-he-kept-slashing-thailand-daycare-attack-survivor-video"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:20:03","slug":"he-used-a-knife-he-kept-slashing-thailand-daycare-attack-survivor-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49142","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He used a knife, he kept slashing&#8217;: Thailand daycare attack survivor \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher at the Thai daycare centre where more than 20 small children were killed recounted the moment the 34-year-old perpetrator broke in. &#8216;It all went down really fast.&nbsp;He was&nbsp;slashing the knife, he didn&#8217;t use the gun, he kept slashing in there. It&#8217;s all by a knife.&#8217; The attacker, a former police officer, opened fire and stabbed children as they slept at the centre in Na Klang district in Nong Bua Lamphu province. 37 people were killed, most of them young children.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/thailand-in-mourning-after-children-killed-in-mass-stabbing-and-shooting\">Thailand in mourning after children killed in mass stabbing and shooting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/oct\/07\/he-used-a-knife-he-kept-slashing-thailand-daycare-attack-survivor-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher at the Thai daycare centre where more than 20 small children were killed recounted the moment the 34-year-old perpetrator broke in. &#8216;It all went down really fast.&nbsp;He was&nbsp;slashing the knife, he didn&#8217;t use the gun, he kept slashing in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49143,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49142\/revisions\/49143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}