Thai PM visits families of attack victims, promises compensation

Speaking in a microphone while giving out the large cardboard cheques printed with figures ranging from 110,000 to 200,000 Thai baht ($2942.75 to $5350.46), Prayuth also hugged dozens of people in a crowded hall.
 

The nation mourned the death of more than 30 people, including 23 children, after an ex-policeman burst into a daycare center in a knife and gun rampage that left people shocked and seeking answers.

Most of the children who died at the daycare center in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 km (310 miles) northeast of Bangkok, on Thursday (October 6) were stabbed to death, police said, marking one of the worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history.

Thailand\'s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha speaks with family members of the victims outside the day care centre which was the scene of a mass shooting, in the town of Uthai Sawan, in the province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, Thailand