Terrorists have killed eight people over a 24-hour period in a series of shootings across southern Thailand, police said on Wednesday. The deaths come a week after the government noted the increasing violence following a string of gun and bomb attacks. A Buddhist teacher was shot dead in Songkhla province on early Tuesday morning while working his second job at a rubber plantation.
Another Buddhist plantation worker was gunned down, and his wife wounded, on their way to a work in the same province, also on Tuesday morning.
Later seven gunmen opened fire at a local village teashop in Pattani province, killing three Muslim men, followed by a drive-by shooting in nearby Yala province that killed another Muslim man.
Yet another group of armed men opened fire on yet another teashop in Narathiwat province on Tuesday night, killing two Buddhist men and wounding another three.