Families mourn as Thai massacre victims are cremated

Monks watch the funeral pyres (Wason Wanichakorn/AP)

Hundreds of mourners gathered on Tuesday to watch flames burn from rows of makeshift furnaces at cremation ceremonies for the young children and others who died in last week’s mass killings at a day care centre in Thailand.

Families bid their final goodbyes at a Buddhist temple a short distance from the Young Children’s Development Centre in the town of Uthai Sawan, where a former policeman, who was fired from his job earlier this year for using drugs, went in last Thursday and shot and stabbed children and their caregivers.