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Thai jihadis kill policeman, off-duty firefighter
A police officer and an off-duty firefighter were fatally shot Saturday in southern Thailand, in the latest attacks that police suspect were carried out by Muslim insurgents.Two assailants shot Lt. Pak Petchmalai, 49, as he was driving to work at Sai Buri district's Police Station in Pattani province, said another police officer, Lt. Sakkariya Mankongket. A witness said firefighter Nikom Nupeng, 37, had been planting trees at a park in Yala province's Bannang Sata district when two attackers shot him dead and fled by motorcycle, said police Lt. Sirichai Suksaran. On Friday in Narathiwat, a roadside bomb seriously wounded three soldiers. Elsewhere in the province, an attacker shot dead an assistant village chief heading home from guard duty at his village, the official Thai News Agency reported. On the same day, authorities found and destroyed a bomb attached to the underside of a pickup truck entering a Pattani army camp. The military said it was investigating. Posted by: ryuge 2007-01-13 |
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