By Poppy McPherson and Chayut Setboonsarng
UTHAISAWANG, Thailand – The ex-policeman who went on a killing spree at a Thai daycare centre had risen rapidly by means of the ranks of the police drive within the capital, earlier than a switch to the provinces led to his use of medication, and an abrupt halt to his profession, police stated.
No clear motive had been established but for the rampage on Thursday.
However police stated their preliminary investigation indicated Panya Khamrap was deeply troubled by marital and cash issues following his suspension from police responsibility in January, after he admitted to utilizing two kinds of methamphetamine.
“He wished to vent. We discovered from his mom that on the day of the incident he was quarrelling together with his spouse,” native police chief Chakkraphat Wichitvaidya instructed Reuters.
“He might have wished to do one thing dangerous.”
Colleagues within the native police drive stated he was generally bad-tempered and violent whereas he labored there.
Police stated Panya, 34, was agitated as he entered the daycare centre on Thursday, armed with a handgun and a big curved knife.
Witnesses described how he went on a two-hour rampage, slashing to dying 22 youngsters aged 2-5 as they took a day nap, capturing bystanders and driving at individuals in his automobile.
In all, 24 youngsters had been killed, amongst 38 fatalities. Panya’s final victims had been his spouse and youngster earlier than he turned his 9 mm handgun on himself at his house in a village 3 km (1.9 miles) away from the nursery college.
It was one of many world’s worst youngster dying tolls in a bloodbath by a single particular person in latest historical past.
Simply hours earlier than the bloodbath, Panya had appeared in courtroom on medication fees. Police stated he then headed to the daycare centre to seek for his son, who had not attended that day.
It was not clear if Panya nonetheless used medication. An post-mortem report indicated had not used them on the day of the assault, nationwide police chief Damrongsak Kittipraphat stated on Friday.
“We see that the quarrel together with his spouse is the primary concern. That they had longstanding issues,” Damrongsak stated.
“The explanations are in all probability unemployment, no cash, and household points.”
HOT-TEMPERED, VIOLENT
In response to his police document, Panya began his profession in Bangkok and labored in two totally different police districts within the metropolis’s business coronary heart.
Throughout his time within the capital he was made lance corporal, then corporal, earlier than being promoted to sergeant in 2019.
Native police instructed Reuters Panya’s behaviour modified after he relocated to Nong Bua Lumphu province within the northeast.
Panya stored himself to himself however was generally hot-tempered and violent, the native police stated, citing his fellow officers who stated he fought with colleagues, who had been conscious of his medication use.
A lady described because the killer’s mom was interviewed on Thursday by native tv on Thursday, which blurred her face on digital camera and withheld her identify to guard her id, which Reuters couldn't independently confirm.
She stated her son’s behaviour modified when he gave up his life in Bangkok to take care of her within the countryside.
“He began utilizing medication when he moved right here after being stationed in Bangkok for six years. He moved right here to care for me,” she instructed Channel 3 .
“He used medication, didn’t promote them. He would purchase them.”
Of her response when studying of her son’s killing spree, she stated “I virtually fainted. I felt a lot sorrow.”
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