Policeman killed, school torched as Thai PM visits restive south
YALA - Suspected separatist rebels shot dead a policeman and torched a school in the restive Thai south, police said Saturday, as the prime minister toured the region to promote peace.
A police sergeant was shot and killed while on patrol in Pattani province late Friday night, while a wooden building at an elementary school in nearby Yala province was burnt to the ground by insurgents, also late Friday.
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont travelled to the Muslim-majority region on Friday afternoon, not long after two bomb blasts in Pattani province injured four people in a provincial town
Agence France-Presse