UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. The Southern Teachers' Federation reported that teachers had been killed by 16 June , and two further killings brought the reported total to by the end of July However, the MoE also reported that 14 schools were burned down in Narathiwat and Pattani in The total injured was 24 in , 15 in and 19 in , as of July. The killings included many incidents of security details being attacked via remotely controlled explosions while escorting teachers, or on their way to or from escorting teachers.
In one incident, two soldiers from a security detail were beheaded. A chillingly complex operation was carried out on 2 June when insurgents attacked a pick-up truck carrying six teachers home from schools in Ja Nae District, Narathiwat Province.
Gunmen disguised as government soldiers on motorbikes overtook a truck carrying a group of teachers and forced it to stop at a fake roadblock set up by other gunmen in their group. Muslim teachers were killed for "collaborating" with the state education system. There were also revenge killings on teachers in Muslim schools. In the morning of 28 July , an explosion in front of Dusongyor School, Cha-nae District, Narathiwat Province, injured six soldiers as their patrol unit passed in front of the school.
The bomb was detonated by mobile phone as more than ten teachers were passing in a ten-vehicle security convoy. Also that day, three policemen in a teacher escort team were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Raman District. Two soldiers who became separated from the main group were killed and decapitated. Teachers ordered children to get out of the classroom for their safety.
Another was wounded. On 24 November, insurgents shot and burned to death teacher Non Chaisuwan in front of staff and students in Sai Buri District, Pattani. The incident triggered the closure of nearly a thousand schools for a week. Attackers hurled explosives and fired bullets into dormitories where 75 boys were sleeping.
