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A gunman who fired pictures at a faculty in Hat Yai district in southern Thailand on Wednesday (February 11, 2026) has been detained and all of the individuals who have been held hostage have been freed, a police official informed Reuters.
An 18-year-old man entered the Patongprathankiriwat Faculty in Songkhla Province’s Hat Yai earlier on Wednesday with a gun, the provincial administration stated on social media.
“The perpetrator has been captured,” Deputy Superintendent Wichian Soboon informed Reuters, including that two folks — a pupil and a instructor — have been wounded within the incident.
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In {a photograph} shared by police, the suspect, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt, is seen held down on the bottom by armed officers.
In a video shared by a witness, which couldn’t instantly be verified by Reuters, armed law enforcement officials storm the three-storied faculty because the sound of gunfire rings out.
In one other, additionally not instantly verifiable, college students run down stairs on the faculty as police, some carrying helmets and black bullet-proof vests and carrying rifles, shouted: “Go dwelling children, it’s secure.”
Gun violence and possession are not unusual in Thailand, the place a former police officer killed 36 folks, together with 22 youngsters, in a gun-and-knife assault at a nursery within the nation’s east in 2022.
Printed – February 11, 2026 05:25 pm IST