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Thai jihadis attack schoolchildren in dorm killing three
Southern extremists attacked a dormitory at a Songkhla province Islamic school early this morning, killing three boys and wounding seven other students. Police said the attacks took place at Bamrungsart school, a Muslim boarding school, or pondok, in the Sabayoi district of Songkhla province. The attackers threw grenades into a dormitory where about 75 boys between 12 and 17 were sleeping. Then they sprayed the area with automatic weapons fire. The dead boys were 12 and 14 years old, killed instantly, and a 17-year-old who died after reaching hospital. Police believed - correctly as events proved - that the insurgents would try to blame authorities for the attack, in an attempt to win over villagers. "Insurgents always use this trick of attacking Muslim people to instigate villagers and get them to believe that police or soldiers were responsible for the attack," Pol Col Thammasak Wasaksiri told the Associated Press news agency. Hundreds of Muslim villagers staged a protest Sunday morning, saying they did not believe Muslims were behind the attack. "The villagers are accusing paratroopers of attacking the school," Thammasak said. If you round up the people who organized the "protests" and kill them immediately you won't have any more trouble in that area. Just a suggestion. Posted by: ryuge 2007-03-18 |
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