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| Southeast Asia |
| Bomb attack, gun ambush reported in Thai South |
| 2007-03-01 |
| A military patrol unit and a group of students were respectively ambushed in Thailand's southernmost provinces on Thursday morning, injuring at least two rangers and seven teenagers. The attack aiming the ranger unit occurred at 8:40 a.m. (0140 GMT)at an intersection on the Yala-Betong Highway in Bannang Sata district of Yala Province, when about ten rangers patrolling the road on foot were returning to their base. The suspect insurgents detonated a homemade bomb which was planted on one side of the road. At least two rangers were injured and were rushed to the Yala hospital, police said. Meanwhile, in nearby Narathiwat Province, a group of students were ambushed by gunmen Thursday morning while they were returning from a sight seeing trip in Songkhla province. A total of seven students were injured by gunshots and one of them was still in coma till Thursday afternoon, doctors said. On Thursday, a Muslim man was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb at a Yala hotel when a series of coordinate bomb attacks were launched in the three southern border provinces last month. Police said Adul Meenah, 25, was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb at the Sri Yala Hotel on the night of February 18. |
| Posted by:ryuge |