This article was in the Australian papers today.

Is it covered anywhere else in the forum? Is anyone aware of the incident and when and where it occurred?

Bandits shoot at Melbourne teachers in Thailand

Two Melbourne school teachers have had a narrow escape after armed bandits fired upon their car in Thailand.

The female teachers from Ringwood Secondary College were on a school trip to the northern city of Chiang Mai when their vehicle was sprayed with bullets on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/bandits-shoot-at-melbourne-teachers-in-thailand-20110712-1hb71.html#ixzz1RqPG6jAr

How do they know that they were "bandits" rather than your everyday homicidal maniacs doing a drive-by (which is not exactly common here)? It does not say anything about the students being asked for money. This story seems rather strange.

It doesn't sound right at all, and the fact it apparently wasn't reported locally... or it surely would have appeared here, makes it even stranger.

Something like this also happened in Bangkok.

There's similarity in the fact that shots were fired but two Aussie school teachers travelling in a car don't really equate to three Thai men out on a "pleasure ride".

....at dawn?

More likely to be some drunk Thai policeman using his gun than bandits, but I guess it's the same anyway.

Local press often takes a bit longer. At least a day, often two.

Maybe the teachers need to check which students of theirs were in CM at the same time.

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