BANGKOK, Feb 11 — A gunman who fired shots at a school in Hat Yai district in southern Thailand on Wednesday has been detained and all the hostages 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.

“The perpetrator has been captured,” Deputy Superintendent Wichian Soboon told Reuters.

At least three people were injured in the incident, a second police official said.

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