Buddhist funeral rites held before cremation of nursery massacre victims

Monks pray at a temple in northeastern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu ahead of the cremation for the victims of nursery attack, which will be held early evening on Tuesday.

Sacked police officer Panya Khamrab killed 36 people -- 24 of them children -- last Thursday in a gun and knife rampage, in one of the kingdom's worst-ever mass killings.