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| Southeast Asia |
| Terrorists ambush police response team in Southern Thailand |
| 2006-05-07 |
| A Thai border patrol police unit responding to a reported bomb attack against a military patrol unit in Ra-ngae District of the country's southernmost province of Naratiwat was ambushed Saturday afternoon by suspected insurgents. Police said an unknown number of insurgents using AK47 and M16 automatic weapons attacked the border patrol police bomb squad, but the police fought back. The exchange of gunfire lasted 10 minutes before the insurgents left the scene. Several officers were wounded by a bomb blast and were sent to a nearby hospital. Earlier, a bomb planted by militants exploded in a rural village of this southern province before dawn, causing no injuries, another was defused and a third, fake, explosive was found, police said. No casualties were reported when the first bomb, weighing about 10 kilograms, exploded in the village of rural Su-ngai Padi District at 05:20 a.m. The bomb was hidden inside an iron box and placed in a garden behind a house owned by a school teacher who was away visiting relatives at the time of the incident. The explosion caused a large crater, police said, but no one was injured. Another bomb was found 20 metres from the house, but the authorities defused it, police said, adding that the militants had intended to detonate it via a cell phone, but failed as officials had earlier cut off the signals of all mobile telephone systems. Police said they also found a decoy bomb some 200 metres away. It was hidden inside a black bag and left near a public phone booth. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Guess the Origami didn't work? |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-07 15:27 |