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Bombs and shootings kill 5, wound 24 in southern Thailand
Terrorists Suspected insurgents killed five people and wounded 24 in a bloody day of bombings and shootings in Thailand's troubled south, police said on Sunday.
Jihadis Militants threw two homemade grenades into busy eateries late on Saturday, killing a 35-year-old Buddhist man and injuring another 24. On the same day, four Muslim men were killed in shooting incidents across the restive southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani.
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Four soldiers were wounded early Sunday after a bomb detonated by terrorists suspected insurgents destroyed their pickup truck while travelling on a road in the troubled southern province of Yala, police said. Combined government forces rushed to the scene of the incident and found the army pickup truck overturned in front of a factory in the provincial town, police said. They found an electric wire from the scene of the explosion, dragged into a nearby roadside rubber plantation.The four wounded soldiers were sent to the provincial hospital for treatment.
In a related incident in the neighbouring province of Pattani on Saturday night, police Sunday looked for more evidence at a karaoke bar which was hit by a grenade attack and where the owner's son-in-law was wounded. Police found a number of the grenade fragments inside the bar.
Posted by: ryuge 2010-06-13 |
