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| Southeast Asia |
| Buddhist teachers killed in southern Thai library |
| 2007-06-13 |
| Two female Buddhist teachers were shot dead at a school in Thailand's Muslim-majority south today, prompting 50 institutions to close indefinitely for fear of further attacks, officials said. Two men walked into the government school in Narathiwat, one of three provinces caught up in three years of Muslim separatist unrest in which more than 2300 people have been killed, and shot the teachers during the lunch break, police said. "They got off a motorcycle, walked into the school and killed the teachers in the library while others went out for lunch," a police investigator said from the scene. Police found 11 bullet casings from two pistols near the victims, who were in their 20 and 40s. They had multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, he said. Education officials immediately ordered 50 schools in the troubled Ruesoh and Sri Sakohn districts of Narathiwat to close. "We are afraid of more attacks on teachers," education ministry official Pairach Saengthong said. "How could there be more classes after such an audacious attack?" |
| Posted by:ryuge |