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| Southeast Asia |
| Four gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2011-08-04 |
| Violence continued to ravage ThailandÂ’s southern border region Thursday with a string of four killings in a single day. A Muslim religious teacher was killed in a shooting at his home in Pattani province early Thursday morning, a married couple was gunned down in a nearby district of the same province, and a former village defense volunteer was shot dead in Yala province. Asming Jaema, 37, an Islamic teacher, was gunned down by a group of suspected In a separate attack, a married couple was killed in a shooting. Two men with pistols shot Mahaseubai Jetae, 40, and his wife Mazeera Madeng, 34, as they rode a motorcycle from home to a rubber plantation. In neighbouring Yala province former defense volunteer Doromae Phetcherngkhao, 38, was shot while riding his motorcycle from home on some errands. A passenger on a motorcycle shot him twice in his head with a 9 mm pistol. Badly injured, he was pronounced dead while being transferred to the hospital. Authorities believe that all the fatalities may have been the work of one group group of presumed In a related development, a school closed temporarily Thursday after teacher Noppadol Sasimonthon was gunned down while travelling to the school on Wednesday morning. Teachers at the school will convene a meeting of security officials to upgrade their security plan. |
| Posted by:ryuge |