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Noodle shop bomb kills woman, injures 18 in Pattani
[Bangkok Post] A woman was killed and 18 people injured, some critically, by a bomb placed outside a Pattani noodle shop on the anniversary of the 2004 Tak Bai incident.The bomb tore through the noodle shop early Monday evening in Pattani town, just south of Tak Bai district in neighboring Narathiwat province. Police officer Yutthakarn Chitmanee said, "One woman was killed, a Thai Buddhist, and 18 were injured." The noodle shop was left a twisted wreck by the blast. Eyewitnesses said there were multiple casualties, and many seemed to be life-threatening injuries. The attack occurred the evening before the anniversary of the deaths of 85 Muslim men arrested and packed into trucks by security forces sent to Tak Bai to break up an anti-government protest. The victims smothered to death when "stacked like cordwood" in the back of trucks taking the bound men to the notorious Ingkayut Borihan Military Camp. A judicial inquest found the Thaksin Shinawatra government and the military responsible for the deaths. No arrests ever have been made. The incident has caused deep resentment by the Muslim majority in the region. Posted by: ryuge 2016-10-25 |
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