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Village leader gunned down in southern Thailand
A village headman was shot to death by presumed terrorists insurgents in Tala's Raman district Monday afternoon, and empty cooking gas cylinders brought an unspecified number of police and other security personnel in a response that proved to be a false alarm in Narathiwat province.

Yala's Raman district village chief Rosa Esawmuso, 47, was gunned down by attackers assumed to be terrorists insurgents as he drove his motorcycle on the Kotabaru-Wangpaya Road to a roadside market.

Two empty cooking gas cylinders, suspected of being homemade bombs in the making, were found hidden behind a tree on a Narathiwat roadside Monday afternoon, but proved not to be bombs. Security closed connecting roads and cut mobile phone signals before inspecting the cylinders, hidden close to the bypass. The cylinders were thought to be made into improvised explosive devices. A cooking gas cylinder bomb was used at the Sungai Kolok police station on August 21, killing two persons and injuring more than 30.
Posted by: ryuge 2008-09-30
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