Thai town struggles with sudden loss of so many of its young

Relatives of the victims of the mass killing attack tie holy threads on the wrists of 3-year-old Paweenuch Supolwong, the only child to emerge unscathed, inside Wat Rat Samakee temple in Uthai Sawan, northeastern Thailand on October 8, 2022. [AP Photo]

Paweenuch Supholwong sits on her mother's lap and fidgets with her pigtails as her mother tells the remarkable story of how the 3-year-old wisp of a girl survived Thailand's worst mass killing - the only child to emerge unscathed from a day care after a former police officer massacred preschoolers while they napped.