{"id":49233,"date":"2022-10-10T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/thai-pm-announces-crackdown-on-drugs-in-wake-of-nursery-attack"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:07:17","slug":"thai-pm-announces-crackdown-on-drugs-in-wake-of-nursery-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49233","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM announces crackdown on drugs in wake of nursery attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attack that left 37 dead was carried out by former police officer dismissed from the force for methamphetamine possession<\/p>\n<p>The Thai prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has ordered a clampdown on drugs, including an emphasis on rehabilitation, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/thailand-shooting-attack-at-pre-school-centre\">mass shooting and stabbing at a nursery in north-eastern Thailand<\/a> that left 37 people dead, mostly young children.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented attack has shaken Thailand, where mass killings are rare, and prompted calls for a tougher stance on drugs. It was carried out by a former police officer, identified by police as Panya Khamrab, who had been dismissed from the force for methamphetamine possession.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/thai-pm-announces-crackdown-on-drugs-in-wake-of-nursery-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack that left 37 dead was carried out by former police officer dismissed from the force for methamphetamine possessionThe Thai prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has ordered a clampdown on drugs, including an emphasis on rehabilitation, following th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3361,"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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233","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\/3361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233\/revisions\/49234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}