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| Latest jihadi rampage in southern Thailand |
| 2007-04-10 |
| A deadly attack on a pickup truck was the second time in less than a month that students have been the specific targets of an attack in the restive South. Gunmen sprayed bullets at a pickup truck carrying students and other passengers returning from a funeral in Bannang Sata district of Yala province yesterday, killing three passengers and wounding seven. It was the second such attack in a month. On March 17, attackers fired on and threw grenades at students from Bamrungsart ponoh school in Songkhla's Saba Yoi district, killing three of them. Villagers subsequently held a large protest rally as they suspected the authorities were behind the attack. Yesterday, the vehicle carrying students from Ba Cho Islam Witthaya school and Bannang Sata mosque was attacked about 5pm near a roadside checkpoint. The passengers were returning from funeral prayers for Bueraheng Gunna, head of the Khuen Bang Lang tambon administration organisation, who had been killed only six hours earlier. The three who died in the attack were identified by district police as Saibudin Balataya, 25, Assan Totayong, 25, and Masudee Alimana, 12. In the 11am attack, tambon headman Bueraheng was killed when a 5 kilogramme bomb hidden underneath his pickup truck exploded in Bannang Sata district. The 55-year-old was driving the truck when the bomb was triggered via mobile phone, police said. The only passenger, Maluding Abdulrohman, 37, was seriously injured. Also yesterday, a roadside bomb went off about 8.10am and injured a private attached to the 14th special task force, who was making a routine patrol in Than To district. The bomb was detonated remotely as Ronachai Charoensuk, 23, and his team walked by. Shortly afterwards in Raman district, rubber tapper So-lae Ganiseng, 32, was shot dead while at work on a plantation. Police found AK assault rifle cartridge cases at the scene. Around noon, a gunman with an assault rifle shot and killed a Tah Sab tambon administration organisation technician. Singha Muendej, 31, was found dead inside his sedan in Muang district of Yala. The gunman also left a note threatening to target Buddhist Thais. Drive-by shooters killed ice-cream vendor Inkam Wongpanya, 35, in Muang district. Another group of insurgents on motorcycles scattered spikes to slow down security forces heading for the scene. In Narathiwat's Chanae district, gunmen hidden in bushes opened fire on Johlae Joha, 52, who was on his way home on a motorcycle in the early hours of yesterday morning, killing him. He was only 100 metres away from his house. |
| Posted by:ryuge |