A male school teacher was shot dead in Pattani's Khok Pho district on Thursday afternoon, police said. Pol Lt-Col Kitti Waeyuso, deputy chief of Khok Pho district police, said Boonnam Yodnui, 41, a teacher at Ban Tha Khlong School, was shot three times in the body with a .38 handgun on Khok Pho-Thepha road while returning home on a motorcycle along with other teachers on five other motorcycles.
Two men, suspected to be terrorists insurgents, chased Boonnam on another motorcycle, and the pillion rider opened fire at him at a point-blank range. The shooting took place in front of the other teachers. He was seriously wounded and died at Khok Pho Hospital. |