Cremations readied for massacre victims

Makeshift furnaces made of clay bricks were being built on the grounds of Buddhist temples in a town in northeastern Thailand to cremate the bodies of the mostly young victims of last week’s massacre at a daycare centre by a former policeman.

Last Thursday’s brutal gun and and knife attack on the Young Children’s Development Centre in Uthai Sawan left 36 people dead, including 24 young children. It was the biggest mass killing by an individual in the country’s history.