One dead, six injured in continuing Thai violence
Terrorists Suspected Muslim rebels exploded a bomb in front of a rice shop and set fire to a school in restive southern Thailand, injuring six people, police said Sunday.
Two classrooms were destroyed in the public school in Pattani province's Panarae district by the fire early Sunday, police Sub. Lt. Wichathorn Phimklom said.
On Saturday evening, a bomb exploded in front of a rice shop in Narathiwat province's border tourist district of Sungai Kolok, police said. A 10-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were among the six injured, they said.
Also Sunday, unidentified assailants in a pickup truck shot Muslim rubber tapper Boraheng Waekuechi in the head in Yala's Yaha district, police said, adding that he was in critical condition. There were no immediate suspects in the attack.
Posted by: ryuge 2007-07-22 |