The spirit of teachers in the far southern province of Narathiwat has sunk to an all-time low after the shooting of a staff member from Baan Bor Ngo School in Rangae district on Monday.

The school abruptly suspended classes on learning of the slaying of Komsun Chomyong, who became the 152nd member of the country’s educational personnel to be killed in the insurgency, which has raged in the far south since 2004.

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