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Suspected insurgents attack election officials
BANGKOK, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents ambushed election officials Wednesday in ThailandÂ’s restive south, killing a policemen and injuring six other people in two separate attacks, just before polls opened for Thais to elect a new Senate, police said. The insurgents attacked the two groups of election officials as they were on their way to polling stations Wednesday morning in the Srisakorn district of Narathiwat province, said police Lt. Watcharin Tancharoensap.Watcharin said insurgents detonated a small explosive and then opened fire in one attack, killing police Sgt. Sakchai Innoi, and fired gun shots in the other. Three village headmen assigned to the election committee and three policemen deployed to guard them were injured, delaying the opening of the two polling stations in Srisakorn, he said. In neighboring Yala province, Raman District police Col. Wisuth Nakchu said a bomb was detonated by the side of the road, but no one was nearby when it exploded. Posted by: Steve 2006-04-19 |
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