Emotion in Thailand.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn is expected Friday in the north of the country, the day after the massacre which left 37 dead, mainly children in a nursery.
Accompanied by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, he must go to the province of Nong Bua Lamphu during a day under the sign of meditation.
A former police officer armed with a 9mm pistol and a long knife killed 37 people on Thursday, including 23 children, during a murderous journey that began at a nursery school in Na Klang district.
"He broke down the front door with his foot, he came in and started slashing the children's heads with a knife," Nanthicha Punchum, director of the crèche, told AFP.
The assailant then took to the road, and tried to knock down passers-by, until he got to his home, "not far" from the crèche, according to the police.
He then killed his wife and their little boy, before killing himself.
“He was expected at his trial on Friday”
After this "horrible" massacre, Prayut Chan-O-Cha ordered the opening of an investigation and asked the police chief to "accelerate the investigations".
The first elements provided paint the portrait of an assailant, aged 34, plagued by drug problems.
Addiction problems that made him lose his job in the police last June.
"He was due for trial on Friday on his drug problem," said Damrongsak Kittiprapat, the national police chief.
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