Flowers and toys at funeral for Thai school bus fire victims


A family member attends a funeral for children who had been studying in Wat Khao Phraya School and were killed in a bus which was engulfed in a fire while on a school field trip in Bangkok, in Uthai Thani province, Thailand, October 3, 2024. - Photo: Reuters

LAN SAK, (Thailand): Weeping parents laid flowers and toys on the coffins of 20 children killed in a Thai school bus inferno, along with three teachers, as five days of funeral prayers began on Thursday (Oct 3).

Family members dressed in black gathered in the assembly hall of Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam school in the northern province of Uthai Thani to console one another and pray for their loved ones.

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