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Close call for Thai soldiers

A group of soldiers had a close call on Saturday afternoon when ~~terrorists~~ insurgents set off a bomb on a road in Narathiwat province as their pickup truck passed by. Six members of the 3rd Special Forces Regiment were on the road when the bomb, which had been buried by the side of the road, was detonated.

The blast badly damaged the left side of the vehicle and left a big hole in the road, but no one was injured. The device was concealed in a 20-kilogram cooking gas cylinder and set off by a mobile phone signal.

In a related development, a southern intelligence agency said a group of separatist ~~terrorists~~ militants active in Tua Ngor village had made two bombs, one attached to a motorcycle and another hidden in a 20-kilogram cooking gas cylinder, and were preparing to take them out of the area. The ~~terrorists~~ militants intended to use the devices to carry out separate attcks in Narathiwat during Songkran holiday.

Security forces have manned checkpoints on all routes in and out of the village and are gathering further information to identify the whereabouts of the bombs.