A year after the Nong Bua Lamphu mass shooting, a community remain scarred

The mass shooting in Thailand’s Nong Bua Lamphu province on October 6, 2022 was a tragedy that stunned the world. A former policeman used a gun and a knife to attack a childcare center, killing 37 people and injuring more than 10 others. Many of the victims were young children. One year has passed. The Isaan Record went to the site to talk to those who lived through the nightmare about how their lives have changed.

A cursed land

“The Uthai Sawan sub-district has become a cursed land,” says Ratnikorn Somparn, a survivor of the tragic massacre at a daycare center in Thailand’s northeast Nong Bua Lamphu province, where 37 people — mostly young children — were killed.

Ratnikorn is a food vendor. Her shop sits on a street that the shooter one year ago used, as he was heading to the local authority’s nursery, on October 6, 2022. She is one of the five people injured after…