A teenage mother slashed her three-year-old son's throat with a kitchen knife and then attempted to kill herself in Yasothon in Thailand’s north-east, because she had “many problems”.

Residents in Pathum Thani are urging local authorities or charities to help an intellectually disabled 16-year-old girl who has just given birth and continues to live in a leaky, run-down shack with her 49-year-old father, who has the same condition.