Student shoots multiple people at a high school in Thailand, authorities say

A schoolgirl cries outside her school where deaths and injuries were reported after a shooting in Thailand's Nonthaburi province, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. Sakchai Lalit/AP hide caption

BANGKOK — Police were responding to a shooting Friday at a high school outside Bangkok where deaths and injuries were reported.

The shooting happened at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province northwest of the national capital, Royal Thai Police spokesperson Trairong Piwpan told The Associated Press.

The shooter was a student who remained inside the school and deaths and injuries were reported, Arsit Sampantharat, permanent secretary for the Interior Ministry, told news station PPTV.

The officials did not say how many people were hurt or provide other details.

Images from the scene about an hour after the shooting showed people standing outside the school comforting one another and police and first responders walking around inside the school. The building apparently had been secured, but officials had not publicly confirmed the status of the shooter.

A witness told reporters that students hid inside a classroom while they heard gunshots from another building before police officers knocked on the door and cleared a way for them to leave the building.

In February, a 17-year-old stole a gun from police and opened fire at a public high school in southern Thailand, briefly taking people hostage in a two-hour attack that killed one person and injured two others.