Thai gunman detained, hostages freed after school shooting

A gunman who fired shots at a school in Hat Yai district in southern Thailand on Wednesday has been detained and all the ‌people who were held hostage have been freed, a police official told Reuters. An 18-year-old man entered the Patongprathankiriwat School in Songkhla Province earlier on Wednesday with a gun, the provincial administration said on social media. “Police shot the suspect in the Hat Yai shooting,” Thailand’s Central Investigation Bureau said in a statement, after earlier saying he...