it is nothing short of a horrific tragedy. a massacre at a day care center in thailand. an attacker killed 36 people, most of them are children. officials say at tack started when a man armed with a gun and a knife entering the childcare facility and police say most of the victims were stabbed. most officials are saying the that attacker who killed himself is a former police officer. selina wang is tracking all of this live in tokyo. what is the very latest that you re learning? reporter: kate, we re just getting new details from the police about this horrific tragedy. the death toll has revisen to 3 people dead including 24 children and one pregnant woman. ten more are injured. earlier the government has described this massacre as a mass shooting but now they say many of the people died from knife stabbing wounds. police say that this 34-year-old gunman went to this nursery in northeastern thailand looking for his 2-year-old stepson. he went there and couldn t find him. he
other horrible crime in thailand at this day care center. so many children killed. also this man they believe, he was in court just hours before on drug charges. there is a ton of questions about what exactly a motive would be. but from everything you ve learned from criminal profiling, when you see the details of this, what are you thinking? we ll we ve seen mass murders of children and we don t go-v to go to thailand, we could go to here. when a police officer is arrested on drug charges it is not well i have to face a criminal charge. it is an upset of their entire identity. yesterday was a hero, and now i m a criminal and i m a pariah. fitting those two things together, the mass murder of children when he shows up there trying to get his children and they say that child isn t here, if i can t have my child, i m taking everybody s child. that is a projection there. going home and killing his wife and child, this is clearly