Thousands gather in central Thailand to mark the last rites for 20 schoolchildren and their three teachers who were killed in a bus inferno last week. Monks chant as the 23 caskets are placed into individual cremation furnaces, ending a week of traditional funeral ceremonies. "No punishment or amount of money is more important than my son's life," says Wichan Suebsaichan, who lost his nine-year-old son Reutthawat in the blaze. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES