SOUTHERN UNREST
POST REPORTERS
SONGKHLA : All 11 teachers at a school in Songkhla's Thepha district moved out of the area yesterday after a bomb blast killed a ranger volunteer assigned to protect them.
Korlaenang school suspended classes indefinitely after the attack.
The 11 teachers went to work at a school in Muang district instead.
Sonjai Viboonkit, director of Songkhla's education zone 3, said the teachers at Korlaenang school feared for their lives. The 150 students were sent home and their parents advised that classes were suspended.
The bomb, planted near a power pole, went off about 7am at Ban Korlaenang as a patrol of six rangers on teacher escort went past. Volunteer Sulkiblee Salaemae, 30, was killed and patrol leader Thammarat Phuttakan wounded.
In Narathiwat, a roadside bomb targeting a 10-man security patrol exploded in Cho Airong district yesterday morning, but caused no injuries.
Maj Yutthana Saiprasert, deputy commander of the 31st task force, said a search of the house of a man suspected of involvement in the attack found a hidden tunnel and four bottles of see khoon roi, or 4x100, a drug cocktail.
Authorities believed the bombing was in revenge for the death of Abdullah Mudor-arsae, an elder brother of insurgent leader Masae Useng. He was shot dead in Cho Airong district on Sunday.
The number of attacks in the southernmost provinces fell slightly last month, from 96 in May to 83 in June, the Security Operations Command's front command in the deep South reported. Last month 70 people were killed and 76 others injured in 83 violent attacks. Yala had the most attacks with 34 incidents.
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