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Roadside bomb seriously injures two defense volunteers
 [Bangkok Post] Two defense volunteers were badly injured by a roadside bomb explosion in Yala province on Thursday morning, while gunmen attacked a walled checkpoint manned by volunteers in Yi-ngo district of neighboring Narathiwat overnight. In Yala, a bomb detonated on a road in Muang district as six defense volunteers riding motorcycles on patrol were passing. The squad was guarding school teachers and students. Two of the volunteers were hurt. Another defense volunteer and three students suffered temporary deafness. Security forces said the improvised explosive device was fastened to the base of a roadside tree on a road leading to a school. It weighed 3-5 kilograms and was packed with chopped steel rods as shrapnel. In Narathiwat, about five people opened fire with assault rifles on a defense volunteers' base in tambon Ta Poyoh late Wednesday night. The assailants were divided in two groups. Two of them fired at the front of the base from a motorcycle, and others attacked at the rear. Sixteen volunteers there returned fire and the attackers soon left. No injuries were reported Posted by: ryuge 2018-02-18 |
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