Thung Lung Police Station has surrounded Phatong Prathan Keereewat School and is urgently assisting teachers and students after a suspect took a female school staff member hostage.
An armed suspect opened fire inside Phatong Prathan Keereewat School in Phatong Subdistrict, Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province, causing injuries. The exact number of injured is not yet confirmed, but reports indicate that both teachers and students were affected, as previously reported.
(Urgent: Suspect storms Phatong Prathan Keereewat School in Hat Yai, shoots teachers and students, takes children hostage.)
Most recently, at 17:40, Thung Lung Police Station in Songkhla reported that the suspect, named "Khem," 18 years old, took one female school staff member hostage on the first floor in the school's public relations room.