Bangkok: In a gun and knife attack on a child development centre on Thursday in Nong Bua Lam Phu, northeastern Thailand, a former policeman killed 36 people. There were 23 kids among the dead.
Thai authorities have launched an investigation to see if a CNN crew of two entered the scene of the daycare massacre on Thursday illegally after local media published a photo of the TV news network's reporters scaling over fencing and police tape surrounding the tragedy.

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Separately on Sunday, local media reported that the offending CNN reporters, Australian Anna Coren, 47, and British Daniel Hodge, 34, had had their visas revoked by Thai immigration officials.

Police reportedly escorted the reporters to the crime scene from their hotel in Udon Thani after questioning them about how they got there. The pair could be charged with illegal entry onto a crime scene and tampering with evidence, and possible penalties include deportation and blacklisting, the deputy chief of police at the Na Klang police station in Nong Bua Lam Phu warned.

By tweeting that he "stopped another media team climbing over the gate trying to get inside the nursery where the terrible killings took place," Jonathan Head, a BBC Southeast Asia correspondent who was also on the scene of the crime, criticised CNN for its blunder.

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Head criticised CNN for its "hugely insensitive" coverage, which included "showing blood-stained rooms inside."
Local journalists also criticised CNN. Parachute journalism is possible, but if it's as unsavoury as it seems, this isn't the way to do it. And who is typically yelled at by authorities who become enraged by these kinds of offences? Not the parachutes who have already left, but locals like us," tweeted Saksith Saiyasombut of Channel News Asia in Thailand.

No matter what they may claim, the CNN team entered the clearly marked crime scene without authorization, according to a formal statement from the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand. They also referred to the incident as a "unprofessional and serious breach of journalistic ethics in crime reporting."
Because no other news organisation, foreign or domestic, was willing to act in such an unethical manner, and any one of them could have, the FCCT continued, "It was neither a scoop nor an instance of penetrating reporting."

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The group demanded that CNN "answer a simple question": Would its staff have acted similarly while covering a situation akin to this in the United States?
In the daycare shooting on Thursday, 36 people were killed, including 24 children, and 12 more were hurt. A 34-year-old former police officer who had been fired for failing a drug test, according to the police, killed them. Later, the attacker killed his wife and child and then committed suicide. The assault represented the worst mass killing of its kind in Thai history.