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Shortly after noon on Thursday, a former police sergeant armed with a pistol and long meat cleaver rampaged through a child care centre, attacking children and adults, in tambon Uthai Sawan of Na Klang district, Nong Bua Lam Phu.*
The killer had been expelled from the police force earlier year for methamphetamine abuse and was due in court the following day.* He murdered sleeping children and their teachers and killed more people while driving back to his home, where he killed his wife and child before taking his own life*
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