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2 dead in latest jihadi violence in southern Thailand
Two security officers have been shot dead by suspected Islamic rebels in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said Thursday.A 50-year-old police sergeant was killed in a parked car after a group of militants sprayed the vehicle with bullets Thursday in Pattani, one of three insurgency-torn southern provinces bordering Malaysia, they said. In nearby Narathiwat province, a 24-year-old soldier was gunned down after insurgents stormed into his wife's house late Wednesday, police said, adding he was killed following a 10-minute gunfight. Police added a 35-year-old Buddhist man died early Thursday, becoming the second fatality from a bomb attack in Pattani on Monday. More than 20 people were wounded when a bomb, hidden in a motorcycle, exploded at a night market. And: In rural Yala, village headman Torle Aleemama was shot in the leg by a gunman riding in a pickup truck. The victim was attacked as he drove a motorcycle home from a monthly meeting in the Than To district office. Taken to hospital, his condition was not yet announced. Posted by: ryuge 2007-05-03 |
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