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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Funeral rites held for teacher killed during shooting

Teachers and students collectively gathered this morning to mourn the death of a teacher who was wrongfully shot and killed during a shooting by vocational school students this weekend.

Faculty and students from the Sacred Heart Convent School gathered in front of the TMBThanachart bank in Bangkok’s Sunthornkosa road where they paid respects and laid flowers and wreaths for 45-year-old teacher Sirada Sinprasert, who was shot in the head by a stray bullet fired by two unidentified vocational school students riding a motorcycle.

The two culprits, who remain at large, had fired the gun in an apparent attempt to shoot a university student belonging to another vocational school.

Staff had said Sirada, who was known in school as “Kru Jeab”, was a lovable person who always helped and cared for everyone. She had been an assistant computer teacher at the school for 27…

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