Thai massacre leaves traumatised relatives clinging to slain children's toys

Relatives pray during a ceremony for those killed in the attack on the Young Children's Development Center in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, on Oct. 7, 2022. - AP

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (Reuters): Crying and clutching toys, traumatised relatives gathered at a children's daycare centre in Thailand where a day earlier a former policeman had slain 34 people, most of them children, in a knife and gun rampage that horrified the nation.

Government buildings flew flags at half mast on Friday (Oct 7) to mourn victims - 23 of them children - of the carnage in Uthai Sawan, a town 500km northeast of Bangkok, the capital of the largely Buddhist country.