2 children drown at unsupervised school in Sa Keao Provence

In the western province of Sa Keao, 200 kilometers east of Bangkok on the Cambodian border, 2 couples were devastated when they found that the children they had come to pick up from kindergarten had drowned because the school did not have enough teachers to supervise all the children. The incident took place yesterday and police were notified of the tragedy at 10 am.

Officers arrived at the Ban Tha Tasi School to inspect the bodies of 2 young students, which had been fished out of the pond by local villagers. The children, identified as 3-year-old Thanakorn and 4-year-old Peerawat, were believed to have been dead for more than an hour. They were first and second-grade students and their classes didn’t have a supervisor.

Ban Tha Tasi School’s management said that since the school has just reopened, they don’t have enough staff to watch over all the children. The bodies were found by an older child who had gone hunting for the pair and found them floating in the pond.

Shockingly, the parents later said, they are not angry and understand that their children must have been mischievous. The school has promised to be more cautious to prevent a similar tragedy.

Source: https://mgronline.com/local/detail/9630000070130

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