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| Southeast Asia |
| Three killed, 13 schools burned in southern Thailand |
| 2007-06-14 |
| Three Muslim men were gunned down while separatist insurgents set fire to 13 schools in Thailand's Muslim-majority south. Two men were killed in separate drive-by shootings late Wednesday and mid-day Thursday (local time) in Yala, one of three insurgency-hit provinces bordering Malaysia. In neighbouring Narathiwat, gunmen killed a 54-year-old local government official in an ambush on his motorcycle early Thursday. Thirteen soldiers were later injured by a bomb near a football field in Pattani province, leaving four of them in serious condition. A bomb also exploded near a Narathiwat vocational college, injuring a soldier. The blast came after insurgents torched 13 schools in almost simultaneous arson attacks in Yala and Pattani provinces late Wednesday. The latest arson attacks brought the number of schools torched by rebels to 200, while 77 teachers have been killed in the three-year insurgency, according to education officials in the region. |
| Posted by:ryuge |