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Funerals for the 14-year-old gunman and his grandparents were held on Sunday (Aug 9) in Nonthaburi province after a deadly school shooting outside Bangkok.

As investigations continued into Friday's rampage, police said the boy had used social media to learn how to use a firearm.

The gunman's mother apologised to the victims and to society, saying no one had thought something like this would happen.

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00:01The Thai teen behind a deadly school shooting outside Bangkok had an air gun confiscated by a teacher last year
00:07and had watched violent content online, police said on Sunday, as the government promised new safety protocols for schools.
00:15As investigations continued into Friday's rampage, where a 14-year-old boy allegedly shot dead his grandparents at home before
00:22killing another six people at his school, before turning the gun on himself, police said the boy had used social
00:28media to learn how to use a firearm.
00:30Police said a knife had also been found in the boy's bag, and other evidence found at the crime scenes
00:35included a firearm, spent cartridge cases, and a personal computer.
00:39The boy's mother, however, said she'd seen no signs of trouble.
00:45I didn't know that she was a firearm, but she was a firearm and did an assault.
00:48We told her 2-3-3, and asked her a knife to bring her to the child.
00:52We didn't think that she would be a firearm.
00:55We said, if she was a firearm, then she was a firearm.
01:00So she did not know that she would be a firearm, and that she was a firearm.
01:03I said, oh, I'm sorry. She was a firearm.
01:06I didn't know that she was a firearm.
01:10She asked me if she had anything to say to me, because I don't have anything to say.
01:19She said she didn't have anything to say. She said she didn't have anything to say.
01:25She said she didn't have anything to say to me.
01:28She asked me if she had anything to say to me and she didn't have anything to say to me.
01:32She was very knowledgeable. She was very knowledgeable.
01:39She called me a very smart person.
01:42I was also very smart and I was not a smart person.
02:01She also apologized for his actions.
02:30Along with those who died, more than 20 people were injured in Thailand's worst mass shooting since 2022, which has
02:38reignited debate over firearms control in Southeast Asia's largest gun-owning nation.
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