Two dead, schools suspend classes after bank bombings in Thai province.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report in English by Thai newspaper The Nation website on 31 August

Several schools in Yala Province are forced to suspend their classes following simultaneous bomb attacks at several banks on Thursday [31 August] as parents rushed to pick up their children from schools. Parents were worried of the children's safety out of concern that that schools would be next target of the suspected militants. The bomb attacks on several banks in Yala killed at least two people and injured many others on Thursday.

Sanya Suwanphoe, president of the Teachers' Federation of Yala said that the attacks caused chaos …