‘I saw my grandson’s name and I fainted’: grief engulfs town after Thailand nursery attack

Families tell of the moment they heard about gun and knife attack that killed 37 people, most of them children

On Friday morning, in the baking sun, grieving parents filed in a line to leave flowers outside the Uthai Sawan nursery school in northern Thailand. Women dressed in black and with heads bowed each placed a white rose on the entrance steps.

A mother, standing at the side, clutched her son's red blanket and his milk bottle, still half-full.