Earlier in Yala, a security guard was shot and seriously wounded in a daylight attack at a school-guard booth in Yaha district.
Abrohem Masae and two other security volunteers were on guard at Ban Tapor school in tambon La-ae when the gun attack occurred, said Pol Lt Kittisak Kaewmee, a duty officer at Yaha police station, who alerted around noon.
A pickup truck with four men on board stopped in front of the guard booth near the school's fence. They pretended to ask for directions, prompting Mr Abrohem to exit the booth.
. After he did so, one of the four men pulled a gun and fired. The gunshots prompted Mr Abrohem's fellow security guards to leave the booth and return fire, but their rifles jammed. They immediately fled into the school. The assailants fired at them from their truck.
Students panicked amid the spray of bullets, but escaped unhurt. After the attack, Mr Abrohem was found with serious gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg. He was rushed to a nearby hospital. Police believed the attack was aimed at the guards and not the students and teachers.