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| Southeast Asia |
| Three gunned down, elementary school bombed in southern Thailand |
| 2008-08-25 |
| Three persons, two women and a man, were killed early Sunday in continuing violence assumed related to Thailand's ongoing insurgency in this southernmost province. Teacher Suwannee Salae, 32, and her sister Sunisa Salae, were gunned down as they were riding a motorcycle in Raman district Sunday morning. In another shooting incident, 37-year-old rubber plantation worker Sama-ae Jema was gunned down in the same district. Plus: Six Thai soldiers assigned to protect teachers were slightly wounded on Monday when a bomb planted by suspected separatists exploded outside a school in the country's south, police said. The troops suffered minor injures to their chests and ears in the mobile phone-triggered blast in Narathiwat province, which left a small crater in the ground outside an elementary school. |
| Posted by:ryuge |