On Thursday in Thailand, former police officer Panya Khamrab entered a nursery and killed 37 people. 24 were children. He entered three different classes with one goal: to end everyone’s life. Luckily, one girl survived. And his testimony is terrible.
She is Paveenut Supolwong. They are calling her Amy. She is 3 years old (like most of the other children) and two hours before the attack she was, like his friends, drawing and writing in one of the kindergarten classrooms.
At the time of the massacre, all his comrades were asleep. She too. After the storm, Ammy was found huddled among the bodies of the children who had been killed by Khamrab. They don’t know how he survived.
Somsak SrithongAmmy’s grandfather told the BBC: “He had no idea what was going on when he woke up. He thought his friends were still sleeping. A police officer covered her face with a cloth and took her away from all the blood. “
The rescuers, as soon as they saw her, took her to the second floor of the kindergarten to recover. A few minutes later she hugged her grandfather and together they made a video call with her mother, srithong panompaito reassure her.
“I finally got a video call with Ammy and it filled me with blissful relief,” said Panompai, who is 35 and works every week in Bangkok.
The consequences were not fatal, but devastating: Ammy still asks about her best friend, Pattarawutwith whom he always slept his siesta.
Since the girl wanted to continue studying in kindergarten, it was her grandmother who took the responsibility of telling her the truth. “She just wants to go to school every day. We have to keep telling her that she is closed. She is too young to understand the concept of death,” said her mother.
The case
The massacre took place in a Thai nursery located in Nong Bua Lamphu, in the north of the country.
The 34-year-old killer was recently removed by law enforcement for drug possession offenses, provincial police Colonel Jakkapat Vijitraithaya said.
In addition to the 37 people killed, including 24 childrenthere have been at least 12 injuries and many of them are serious.
After killing the kindergarten children and local staff members, the former policeman violently went to where his family was, killed them and eventually committed suicide. Along the way, he hit several pedestrians.
Source: Clarin
