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Three civilians gunned down in southern Thailand
Suspected Gunmen on motorcycles fatally shot an assistant to a village chief as he was going home from a mosque in the southern town of Pattani on Sunday, police said. Hours later a 43-year-old alleged informant for Thai authorities was shot while siting in front of his house in Yala town. He died later in a hospital. In the town of Narathiwat, at least three men in a pickup truck opened fire on a 49-year-old man and his daughter, age 8, as they left a mosque, police said. The man was hit in the head and back and died instantly, while the girl suffered gunshot wounds to her rib, arm and leg. Plus: The police arrested ten persons suspected of involvement in a group of bombings--a car bomb and another two simultaneous bombs--which wounded 71 persons in Narathiwat's Sukhirin District on November 4. The bombings occurred in Sukhirin District, which one of the ten suspects, Marose Dueramae, confessed to driving a motorcycle fitted with a bomb which he parked at the site, while another suspect, Turadee Madong, confessed to using mobile phones to detonate bombs in the car and in the two motorcycles. The police are investigating the suspects to track others in connection with the crime. The car bomb exploded near the Sukhirin district offices shortly before the other bombs, hidden in the motorcycles, parked at the market nearby exploded and wounded more than 70 persons. Posted by: ryuge 2008-11-17 |
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