Families leave offerings for children slain at Thai day care

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and DAVID RISING
Associated Press

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Families offered flowers and dolls, popcorn and juice boxes to the children massacred at a day care center in Thailand. That was part of a Buddhist ceremony held paces from where the slaughter began and was meant to guide the young souls back to their bodies. The relatives called “come back home” and “come back with us.” The attack on the Young Children’s Development Center in Uthai Sawan was Thailand’s deadliest mass killing. It robbed the small farming community of much of its youngest generation. The former police officer who stormed the building killed two dozen people at the day care before taking more lives as he fled, including his wife and child. He then killed himself.