Royals to visit teacher still in coma
HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn takes part in prayers led by Muslim leaders during his visit to a mosque in Yala yesterday.
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Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, Princess Srirasmi and Princess Bajra Kitiyabha will represent Her Majesty the Queen during a visit to Juling Pangamoon, a teacher who has been in a coma since she was beaten by a mob in May, at Prince of Songkhla Hospital on September 10.
Juling's family was grateful and wept upon hearing the news, said Juling's mother Khamme Pangamoon. "I whispered this good news to my daughter and hoped she would regain consciousness and be able to experience the audience with Their Royal Highnesses," said Khamme. She added that both she and Juling's father were very grateful to receive such a high honour and believed that Their Royal Highnesses' blessings could inspire a miracle. The 24-year-old Juling and a colleague at Ban Kuching Reupah School in Narathiwat's Rangae district were taken hostage and beaten in May by villagers who demanded authorities release two suspects arrested in connection with the murder of two marines in the same district last year. Juling has remained unconscious for the past four months, breathing with the assistance of a respirator. Her pulse and blood pressure have been stable, but her brain shows little activity, said Dr Sumet Peerawut, chairman of the hospital where Juling has been cared for since the attack. Meanwhile, in a separate incident in the South, Kucharoon Nima, 36, was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Yala's Bannang Sata district yesterday. More than 1,300 lives have been lost since the latest spike in violence in the deep South began in January 2004.
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