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Dialuna 10 OctOber 2022

Families leave offerings for children slain at Thai day care

grief. stranded in the place where and money problems.
the person perished and must
“I am trying not think about be reunited with the body be- The attack has left no one
horrible images and focus fore eventual rebirth. in the small community un-
on how lovely he was. ... But touched, and brought inter-
I don’t know what I will do national media attention to
with myself once this is all Police identified the attacker the remote, rural area. Thai
over,” she said. “I am deter- as Panya Kamrap, 34, a police authorities on Sunday fined
mined that I will try let go sergeant fired earlier this year two CNN journalists for
of this, that I won’t hold any after being charged with a working in the country on
grudge against the perpetra- drug offense. tourist visas but cleared them
tor and understand that all of of wrongdoing for enter-
these will end in this life.” An employee at the day care ing the day care center, say-
told Thai media that Panya’s ing they had filmed inside
At Rat Samakee temple, fam- son had attended the cen- believing they had obtained
ily members sat in front of ter but hadn’t been there for permission.
the tiny coffins while Bud- about a month. Police have
UTHAI SAWAN, Thai- police officer who stormed dhist monks chanted prayers. said they believe Panya was Mass killings in Thailand are
land (AP) — Families of- the building killed two dozen They placed trays of food, under stress from tensions rare but not unheard of.
fered flowers and dolls, people at the day care before toys and milk along the out- between him and his wife,
popcorn and juice boxes taking more lives as he fled, side of the temple walls as of-
to children massacred at including his wife and child, ferings to the spirits of their
a day care center in Thai- police said. He then killed slain children.
land, part of a Buddhist himself.
ceremony held Sunday Later, they headed to the day
just paces from where the Ceremonies were held Sun- care center and gathered in
slaughter began that was day at three temples, where front of a makeshift memo-
meant to guide the young the bodies of the 36 victims rial there to receive the slain
souls back to their bodies. — mostly preschoolers — children’s belongings. They
were taken ahead of funeral made offerings of their kids’
The gun and knife attack on rites and cremation on Tues- favorite foods and lit incense
the Young Children’s De- day. and candles as they implored
velopment Center in Uthai the children’s souls to return
Sawan was Thailand’s deadli- Maneerat Tanonethong — to their bodies.
est mass killing, and it robbed whose 3-year-old Chaiyot
the small farming commu- Kijareon was killed at the day Many Buddhists in Thailand
nity of much of its young- care center — said the ritu- believe that in cases of unnat-
est generation. The former als were helping her with her ural death, the soul becomes

Ukraine nuclear plant reconnected to grid after line was cut

BERLIN (AP) — An hodar, the IAEA added.
external power line to
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia is one of four
nuclear power plant — the regions in Ukraine that Rus-
biggest in Europe — was sian President Vladimir Putin
repaired on Sunday after has annexed in violation of
shelling disconnected the international laws.
facility from the grid and
forced it to resort to emer- Putin signed a decree
gency diesel generators, Wednesday declaring that
the U.N. nuclear watch- Russia was taking over the
dog said. nuclear plant. Ukraine’s For-
eign Ministry called it a crim-
The International Atom- but operated by Ukrainian nian-held provincial capital plant on Monday, the agency inal act and said it considered
ic Energy Agency said the employees. All six reactors of Zaporizhzhia. said. The site currently has Putin’s decree “null and
750-kilovolt line was recon- at the site are shut down but diesel reserves for about 10 void.” Ukraine’s state nuclear
nected to the plant on Sun- they still require electricity “Almost every day now, there days. Separately, a supply of operator, Energoatom, said
day evening following repair for cooling and other safety is shelling in the region where diesel provided by the Rus- it would continue to operate
work by Ukrainian engi- functions. the Zaporizhzhia nuclear sian state nuclear company the plant.
neers. That enabled the plant power plant is located and Rosatom has arrived in Ener-
to start switching off the gen- Grossi has spent weeks push- where the plant workers and
erators that had kicked in to ing for the establishment of a their families live,” he said.
provide it with power after “nuclear safety and security “The shelling must stop, im-
the line — its last connection protection zone” around the mediately. It is already hav-
to the grid — was cut early plant. He says he will travel ing an impact on the nuclear
Saturday. to Russia and then see Ukrai- safety and security situation
nian President Volodymyr at the plant.”
IAEA Director-General Ra- Zelenskyy in an effort to re-
fael Grossi tweeted that the alize that plan. Ukrainian operating staff told
reconnection was “a tempo- IAEA experts that a convoy of
rary relief in a still-untenable Grossi condemned attacks five trucks carrying “vital ad-
situation.” “in areas that could affect the ditional diesel fuel supplies”
safety and security” of the is currently in the city of Za-
The plant has been held by plant, including in nearby porizhzhia and plans to cross
Russian forces for months, Enerhodar and in the Ukrai- the front line to reach the