18-year-old gunman at Thai school detained; hostages freed: Police official

A gunman who fired shots at a school in Hat Yai district in southern Thailand on Wednesday has been detained and all the people who were held hostage have been freed, a police official told Reuters.

An 18-year-old man entered the Patongprathankiriwat School in Songkhla Province's Hat Yai earlier on Wednesday with a gun, the provincial administration said on social media.

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"The perpetrator has been captured," Deputy Superintendent Wichian Soboon said. At least three people were injured in the incident, a second police official said.

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Gun violence and ownership are not uncommon in Thailand, where a former police officerkilled 36 people, including 22 children, in a gun-and-knife attack at a nursery in the country's east in 2022.