PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Six Thai schools were shut down temporarily after a teacher was shot dead while having lunch at his school's cafeteria, marking the first death of an educator this year in Thailand's violence-wracked south mired in an Islamist insurgency. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Police Col. Pakdee Preechachon said Wednesday that 51-year-old Chonlathee Charoenchon, a Thai Muslim, was killed by gunmen at Ban Tanyong School in Bacho district in Narathiwat province. He said four gunmen entered the elementary school's compound on two motorcycles, and one of them took the...
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