King ‘shares grief’ with massacre victims

This frame grab from Royal Pool video footage made available via AFPTV on October 7, 2022 shows Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida meeting people at a hospital in Thailand's Nong Bua Lam Phu, where the monarch met survivors and relatives after a mass shooting by a former police officer at a nursery. - Thailand's king has told the families of victims of a nursery massacre that left 36 people dead that he "shares their grief" in a rare public address following one of the country's worst ever mass killings. (Photo by Royal Pool via AFPTV / AFP)

THE king of Thailand has told bereaved families he “shares their grief” in a rare public address following a nursery massacre that killed dozens.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn met survivors and relatives at a hospital in northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province late on Friday, a day after an ex-policeman murdered 24 children and 12 adults on a three-hour gun and knife rampage in a sleepy rural area.