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Roadside bomb injures five Thai soldiers
Five soldiers were wounded in a roadside bombing in Narathiwat province on Saturday afternoon.The bomb was set off when a nine-man security unit (five on a military Humvee and four on two motorcycles) was patroling in Waeng district. The explosion, which destroyed the Humvee and left a crater one meter deep and one meter wide in the road, was caused by explosives hidden in a cooking gas cylinder. After the blast, officers who were not wounded had to fire on The bombing followed a pair of drive-by shootings in Pattani province earlier in the day, in which a local official was killed and another villager seriously injured. In the first attack Sofee Yapa, 46, deputy chairman of the tambon administration organisation, was gunned down. Witnesses said that Sofee was travelling on his motorcycle a the local road when a gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle fired at him with a handgun. The attackers then fled. He was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead. Police blamed separatist The second shooting took place on a rural road in Mayo district. Suemadee Bueraheng, 31, was travelling on his motorcycle when he was shot with a handgun by a gunman on another motorcycle, who fled after the attack. Suemadee was seriously wounded and was taken to the hospital. Posted by: ryuge 2013-03-25 |
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