Thailand in mourning after children killed in mass stabbing and shooting

Nation in shock after 37 people, most of them children, killed by sacked policeman - whose drug history should have raised red flags, says media

Thailand was plunged into mourning on Friday after 37 people were killed, most of them young children, in a brutal gun and knife attack at a preschool centre in the rural north-east.

The attacker, a former police officer, opened fire and stabbed children as they slept at the centre in Uthai Sawan, a town 500km (310 miles) north-east of Bangkok at about noon on Thursday, police and witnesses said.