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Eight injured by roadside bomb in southern Thailand
A bomb went off on Takbai-Taba Road in Narathiwat province yesterday afternoon, injuring eight people including a three-year-old boy, civilians and soldiers. Police say the bomb was in an iron box hidden in a two-wheeled push-cart. A police investigation found that two men on a motorcycle placed the bomb on the push-cart then fled. Later, when the soldiers' jeep drove by, the bomb was detonated by remote. The blast also hit the civilians who were on two motorcycles. A village leader was gunned down by suspected Police say Sainung was walking in front of his house at 5 a.m. when two gunmen in hiding opened fire. He tried to return fire but it appears that his weapon jammed. Sainung was attacked and wounded by a suspected Two villagers gunned down on the road Two villagers were killed in a drive by shooting in Narathiwat province early Wednesday morning. They were heading home in a pickup truck from a fresh market on a local road when gunmen in another pickup truck opened fire on them with M16 and AK47 assault rifles. The victimsÂ’ pickup truck swerved off the road, crashed into a tree and stopped. The gunmen then got out of their pickup truck and fired at them again at close range being fleeing. The victims died at the scene. Police blamed separatist Posted by: ryuge 2012-04-26 |
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