Insurgents have sent letters to teachers in Thai southern Province of Narathiwat, urging them to keep soldiers from their schools or their safety would not be guaranteed, the Bangkok Post reported on Saturday.

Over 100 copies of the letter, written in Thai, have been sent to 37 schools and houses of teachers and residents in six tambons in Sungai Padi district during the past two days. Some copies were found scattered on the road, said the report.

The insurgents claimed in the letter that the presence of the soldiers, who had set up military units on school compounds, would put the community in danger.

Chamman Muendam, chief of Sungai Padi district, was quoted as saying that the troop's presence made it difficult for the insurgents to stage unrest.

Meanwhile, violence continued to rock the far South as a street sweeper died and a villager was seriously wounded in shootings in southern Pattani and Yala provinces.

Suparp Ing-saphet, 38, sweeper of Napradu tambon municipality in Pattani's Khok Pho was attacked Friday morning by a man on a pillion rider.

He was shot twice in the back and died on the spot.

In Yala, Anan Issaro, 28, was shot and seriously wounded while he and his wife were leaving an orchard in Bannang Sata district on Thursday.

Two men on a motorcycle followed them and the pillion rider fired three shots at Anan at a close range. His wife Chuan escaped unhurt.

Source: Xinhua