Bombings and shooting kill one, injure 10 in southern Thailand
Two bombs planted by terrorists suspected separatist insurgents have killed one person and injured nine others in the Muslim-majority south of Thailand, police said on Friday.
A 20-year-old man was killed and two others including a policeman injured by a bomb planted in a motorcycle on Thursday evening in Narathiwat, one of three southern provinces badly hit by a five-year-long jihad insurgency.
Also in Narathiwat a day later, a powerful car bomb injured four policeman and three civilians. Police said 40kg of explosives were packed in a car parked by a train station and detonated by mobile phone, but the police escaped death as they were travelling in an armoured vehicle.
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Southern terrorists insurgents on Friday morning shot and critically wounded a soldier in Muang district of Pattani province. Following the ambush, a 29-year-old soldier identified as Private Sutthisak Namesi suffered a bullet wound in the head, and he was immediately sent to Pattani Hospital.
According to reports, a group of gunmen opened fire at Private Sutthisak with a pistol while he was heading to Thepsatri-Sisunthon Camp in Nakhon Si Thammarat province via a motorcycle. The perpetrators were able to escape the crime scene.
Posted by: ryuge 2009-01-02 |