Panya Kamrab
Panya Kamrab (Thai: ปัญญา คำรา, June 4th, 1988 – October 6th, 2022) was a thai mass murderer who is a former police sergeant responsible for perpetrating the 2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack, in which he killed 36 people (24 children) and injured 10 others by shooting, stabbing, and vehicle-ramming before killing himself.
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This is currenlty the deadliest mass murder by a single perpetrator in Thailand's history, surpassing the death toll commited by Jakrapanth Thomma in 2020.
Overview edit
Khamrab was born and raised in Nong Bua Lamphu province. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law at Ramkhamhaeng University and joined the police force in 2012. Khamrab had been a drug addict since highschool, and displayed violent behavior during his police service.
In January 2022, he had been arrested for possessing methamphetamine, and was dismissed dismissed from the police force as a result of his drug addiction.
Shooting edit
On October 6th, 2022, Khamrab drove a pickup truck and arrived at a local nursery around lunch time to look for his stepson when he couldn't find him he got agitated and he fatally shot a father and son outside the nursery before entering the nursery and shot five staff members, in which three of them died. Among them was a teacher who was eight months pregnant. He then entered a room where 30 children were sleeping and killed 22 of them.
Khamrab fled the scene with his pickup truck and shot dead seven people and fatally ran over a villager while fleeing. He went home, burnt his pickup truck, shot his wife and stepson before killing himself.
Aftermath edit
An autopsy was conducted at Udon Thani provincial hospital and the autopsy found no evidence that Khamrab had drugs within the 72 hours before the mass shooting. The police chief said that Khamrab had no record of mental health problems but had a history of drug use. However, the police chief said that Khamrab was apparently under stress and hallucination during the deadly rampage.