More schools close
Schools suspending classes in this southernmost province have grown to 76 after a senior provincial educator was murdered on Sunday.
Published on September 5, 2007
Authorities have beefed up security around the clock at the schools before they reopen on Monday.
Pattani educational supervisor Chalong Arpakorn was shot dead on Sunday and Suwitch Wongsanit, a lecturer at Pattani Technical Collage, was killed on Monday.
Four educators including a woman teacher have died in the province in less than a month.
The violence that erupted in the predominantly Muslim region in the beginning of 2004 has killed some 2,400 people so far.
In Narathiwat's Rangae district a bomb went off during a wedding late on Monday night but no one was hurt. It was planted under a tree some 150 metres away from Mayusoh Kadir's house where people had gathered for the ceremony, police said.
In Yala's Raman district, Sawheming Ye-uding, 59, died while riding a motorcycle to work in a rubber plantation at about 6am when one of two men on a motorbike fired at him.
The Nation