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| Southeast Asia |
| Attacks targeting teachers intensify in southern Thailand |
| 2007-01-31 |
| Suspected Muslim insurgents targeted teachers in Thailand's restive south with scattered bombings and shootings that killed one bystander and injured 13 people, including a school principal, police said Wednesday. Gunman opened fire on a van carrying teachers and volunteer guards Wednesday morning as it neared a school in the Yarang district of Pattani province, said Maj. Gen. Korkiat Wongworachart, the Pattani police commissioner. Two people inside the van were injured. They were identified as guards who work with a volunteer group in the restive south known as the Teachers Protection Unit, said Korkiat. A roadside bomb exploded shortly after the van drove past, missing the vehicle but killing a motorcyclist. "From an initial investigation, we suspect that the assailants wanted to strike the teachers and the volunteers who have become a major target of the insurgency," said Korkiat. Sixty-eight teachers have been killed since the violence flared in 2004, said Boonsom Thongsriprai, head of the Pattani teachers' association. On Tuesday, a bomb blast targeted another van carrying teachers in Narathiwat province injuring 10 volunteer guards, police said. A school principal in a separate district of Narathiwat province was injured Tuesday by a gunman's bullet, police said. Details of that attack were not immediately available. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 USN, ret. Only when the elite, and the government are threatened. genbara11, USN(RC) |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-01-31 22:45 |
| #2 And another formerly successful country decends into the cesspool of Islam. When will the sheeple wake up? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-01-31 15:20 |
| #1 Military Coup going well is it? |
| Posted by: plainslow 2007-01-31 08:15 |