Thai southern insurgents on Tuesday continued their violent actions by shooting down a woman in Yala Province, one day after three people were killed during their intensively shootings in the southernmost region, local police said.
Wanida Madee, 40, was shot in the head on a village road in Luboh Kayoh village in Bannang Sata district of Yala on Tuesday morning. Police said Wanida was riding her motorcycle to a rubber plantation when two men on a motorcycle caught up and opened fire at her.
Her pillion rider, Makallasong Samoh, 41, was slightly injured after the motorcycle fell down.
Meanwhile, seven schools in nearby Pattani province's Sai Buri and Ka Poh districts temporarily closed on Tuesday as teachers were not confident of their safety after insurgents focused their attacks on schools and teachers in the area.
On Monday, a female teacher was gunned down while she was walking into a school. She died on the way to hospital.
The murder followed a wave of arson at four schools in Sai Buri and Ka Pho districts, in which two villagers were killed.
Thailand's three southernmost provinces -- Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani have been troubled with insurgency-related violence which has claimed more than 2,500 lives since it resumed in early 2004.
Source: Xinhua
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