Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Teacher murdered in Pattani

A teacher was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani’s Muang district on Wednesday morning, Pol Col Somporn Meesuk, chief of Muang Pattani police station, said.

He said Noppadon Sirimonthon, 50, was on a motorcycle on his way to the Tanyongluloh community school in Muang district when a gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle fired three bullets at him with a 9mm pistol.

Noppadon fell from his bike, the gunman returned and fired four more bullets at him. He died at the spot.
He was the 140th teacher killed in the deep South since the unrest started in 2004.
Police blamed separatist militants.

More than 4,500 people have been kiilled and about 9,000 injured in the southern border provinces since separatist attacks started violence afresh in January 2004.


From: Bangkok Post

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