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Ranger, intel agent gunned down in southern Thailand
A paramilitary ranger was shot dead in front of a motorbike repair shop in Mayo district of Pattani province on Friday morning. Pol Col Tani Ramdit, chief of Mayo district police, said Madari Sa-o, 29, attached to the 44th Ranger Regiment, was killed by shot in the head from a 9mm handgun as he was putting air in his motorcycle tyres at the repair shop on Mayo-Palas road in tambon La-nga.

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The total number of active terrorists insurgents in the lower South has reached more than 9,400, the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre says. The centre yesterday quoted security intelligence reports as saying there were 9,417 militants across the restive South. Of the total, 1,529 were leaders, 2,708 were operatives and 5,180 people were classified as supporters. The figures were updated in February by intelligence officials working in the southern border provinces. Security forces have arrested 17 leaders, 17 operatives and 154 supporters alleged to be involved with terrorist insurgent groups, the SBPAC said.

The southern militants see themselves as having gained the upper hand in their guerrilla warfare campaign against the government, the report said. The jihadis rebels believe they can attack the security forces anywhere and at any time as well as create more casualties in retaliatory strikes, it said.

Meanwhile, Rookman Daemahreng, 22, an undercover intelligence agent with the 38th Narathiwat Task Force, has been found shot dead by terrorists suspected insurgents in Narathiwat's Rangae district. Rookman's body was discovered yesterday by a resident in a rubber plantation. He is believed to have been dead for three days.
Posted by: ryuge 2010-06-11
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