{"id":49370,"date":"2022-10-16T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/16\/in-wake-of-nursery-killings-thailand-faces-reckoning-over-drugs-guns-and-mental-health"},"modified":"2022-10-16T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T23:26:10","slug":"in-wake-of-nursery-killings-thailand-faces-reckoning-over-drugs-guns-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49370","title":{"rendered":"In wake of nursery killings, Thailand faces reckoning over drugs, guns and mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the authorities must tackle the highest gun ownership rate in south-east Asia, cheap drugs and deep-seated problems within the police <\/p>\n<p>In Uthai Sawan, in north-eastern Thailand, families have said a final goodbye to the victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/thailand-in-mourning-after-children-killed-in-mass-stabbing-and-shooting\">the mass killing that horrified the country<\/a>. The attacker, a former police officer, opened fire and stabbed children at a nursery before returning home to kill his girlfriend, her son and take his own life. He killed 36 people, mostly children.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second mass killing to occur in just a few years in Thailand, where such events have been rare, and the country has been searching for answers over how such a tragedy could have been prevented.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/16\/in-wake-of-nursery-killings-thailand-faces-reckoning-over-drugs-guns-and-mental-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the authorities must tackle the highest gun ownership rate in south-east Asia, cheap drugs and deep-seated problems within the police In Uthai Sawan, in north-eastern Thailand, families have said a final goodbye to the victims of the mass k&#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-49370","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\/49370","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=49370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49371,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49370\/revisions\/49371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}