Coverage dated October 6, 2022 to October 10, 2022

Thai day care massacre victims prepared for funeral rites

Headline from WHEC Rochester, on the newest of 4 developments

Families have gathered at Buddhist temples in rural northeastern Thailand for the start of a shared cremation ceremony that marks an end to three days of funeral rites. The gun and knife attack carried out by a former policeman Thursday on the Young Children’s Development Center in Uthai Sawan kille…

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Developments in this update

4 dated developments, oldest first, newest marked. Each is named by one outlet's own headline; open its reports to see every outlet that covered it.

  1. Thailand's day care massacre unites families and a country in grief

    Headline from Local News 8 ·

  2. Thai nursery massacre families pray to free children's souls

    Headline from Digital Journal ·

  3. Funeral rites begin for victims of mass shooting and stabbing at Thailand nursery

    Headline from ABC 17 Mid-Missouri ·

  4. Newest

    Thai day care massacre victims prepared for funeral rites

    Headline from WHEC Rochester ·

Reports & sources

34 articles, oldest first.

  1. Deutsche Welle

    Thailand mourns victims of 'heartbreaking' daycare center massacre | DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Deutsche Welle's feed description

    Grief-stricken parents laid white roses on the steps of a Thai nursery where an ex-police officer began his shooting rampage. The majority of the 36 victims were children, who were slain while taking afternoon naps.

  2. Local News 8

    Thailand's day care massacre unites families and a country in grief (opens Local News 8)

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    Local News 8's feed description

    By Kocha Olarn, Anna Coren and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Smears of dried blood still stained the wooden floor of a classroom in northern Thailand on Friday, a day after the country’s worst massacre unfolded in perhaps one of the most unlikely places.

  3. Deutsche Welle

    Funerals held for victims of Thai nursery massacre | DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Deutsche Welle's feed description

    In Thailand funerals and prayer services have begun for victims of one of the country's worst mass killings. A former police officer stabbed and shot 36 people at a child care center in northeastern Thailand.

  4. The Guardian

    Thailand nursery attack: offerings amid heartbreak as families ready for victims’ funerals (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    Ceremonies set to begin in Uthai Sawan on Saturday afternoon while king says ‘there are no words that can describe the sorrow’

  5. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    ‘I Love You, Mommy': 4-Year-Old Thai Day Care Victim Mourned (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's feed description

    At least 24 of the 36 victims of Thursday’s massacre at a day care center in Thailand were children, mostly preschoolers. One day after their short lives were snuffed out, their desperate families spent hours waiting for their children’s bodies to be released.

  6. Digital Journal

    Thai nursery massacre families pray to free children's souls (opens Digital Journal)

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    Digital Journal's feed description

    Mourning families knelt Sunday outside a Thai nursery where their children were murdered, performing a Buddhist ceremony to put their souls at rest.Sacked

  7. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Families leave offerings for children slain at Thai day care (opens Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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    Minneapolis Star Tribune's feed description

    Families offered flowers and dolls, popcorn and juice boxes to children massacred at a day care center in Thailand, part of a Buddhist ceremony held Sunday just paces from where the slaughter began that was meant to guide the young souls back to their bodies.

  8. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    Funeral rites begin for victims of mass shooting and stabbing at Thailand nursery (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    ABC 17 Mid-Missouri's feed description

    By Heather Chen, CNN Buddhist funeral rites have begun in the grieving town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand, where families are mourning the loss of children killed in a massacre at a day care center.

  9. KEYT Santa Barbara

    Funeral rites begin for victims of mass shooting and stabbing at Thailand nursery | News Channel 3-12 (opens KEYT Santa Barbara)

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    KEYT Santa Barbara's feed description

    By Heather Chen, CNN Buddhist funeral rites have begun in the grieving town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand, where families are mourning the loss

  10. WHEC Rochester

    Thai day care massacre victims prepared for funeral rites (opens WHEC Rochester)

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    WHEC Rochester's feed description

    Families have gathered at Buddhist temples in rural northeastern Thailand for the start of a shared cremation ceremony that marks an end to three days of funeral rites. The gun and knife attack carried out by a former policeman Thursday on the Young Children’s Development Center in Uthai Sawan kille…

  11. Los Angeles Times

    Families bid farewell to Thai day-care center massacre victims at cremation ceremony (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    Los Angeles Times's feed description

    Mourners and families of the victims of last week's massacre at a day-care center in Thailand have bid final farewells to their loved ones.

  12. NPR

    Thai massacre victims that include 24 children are prepared for funeral rites (opens NPR)

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    NPR's feed description

    Families of victims in last week's massacre at a day care center gathered Tuesday at Buddhist temples in rural Thailand for a cremation ceremony that marks an end to three days of funeral rites.

  13. Voice of America

    Families Bid Farewell As Thai Massacre Victims Are Cremated (opens Voice of America)

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    Voice of America's feed description

    The ceremonies for most of the victims were held jointly to spare families from having to wait long hours for successive cremations to be completed

  14. France 24

    Families gather for mass cremation of Thai nursery victims (opens France 24)

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    France 24's feed description

    Devastated families in Thailand gathered Tuesday for the cremation of their loved ones, killed in a nursery massacre that claimed 36 lives -- including 24 children.

  15. PBS NewsHour

    Hundreds gather to mourn as Thai massacre victims are cremated (opens PBS NewsHour)

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    PBS NewsHour's feed description

    Families bid their final goodbyes at a Buddhist temple a short distance from the Young Children’s Development Center in the town of Uthai Sawan.

  16. The Guardian

    Families mourn victims of Thailand mass shootings and stabbings (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    Mourners attend cremation ceremonies after policeman kills 36 people, 24 of them children

  17. Fox News

    Children killed in Thai day care massacre prepared for funeral rites (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    The children who were killed in last week's day care center massacre in Thailand have been prepared for their funeral rites, many dressed up as what they wanted to be when they grew up.

Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.

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