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Four terrorists killed, two captured in southern Thailand
 Meanwhile terrorists kill two civilians in seperate attacks
Four terrorists presumed insurgents were shot dead in a clash between government security forces and unidentified assailants who ambushed them in the restive southern province of Narathiwat on Monday, and two local residents were killed in shootings in nearby Pattani.
The attackers fired a hail of bullets at paramilitary rangers patrolling Narathiwat's Si Sakhon district. The two groups exchanged gunfire around ten minutes, leaving four terrorists insurgents dead, and one ranger wounded. Security personnel arrested two of the assailants and seized a number of firearms.
According to the initial investigation, security forces believed the ambush was carried out by the same group of terrorists suspected insurgents who ambushed a military patrol in Si Sakhon district three weeks ago, killing three soldiers.
Meanwhile, in nearby Pattani, two local residents were shot dead in separate ambushes on Monday. The first incident occurred in Yaring district when 44-year-old vegetable and fish vendor Mayalee Lateh drove a motorcycle to market with his son when he was killed by unknown assailants, but his son was not hurt.
Also on Monday, terrorists presumed insurgents shot a husband-and-wife as they drove their motorcycle to buy fish at a local port in the provincial seat. Dead at the scene was 22-year-old vegetable and fish vendor Naseero Awe, who died instantly, while her husband was wounded.
A combined force sealed off both the provincial seat and Yaring district to search for the terrorists suspected insurgents, believing that the suspects shot a man in Yaring district before escaping to the provincial seat where they are thought to have committed another crime.
Posted by: ryuge 2009-03-30 |
