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| Shootings and arson leave one dead in southern Thailand |
| 2007-04-29 |
| Muslim insurgents staged three arson attacks against two schools and a community clinic early Sunday morning, police said. A fire was set to a two-storey building of Ban Klong Chang School in Tambon Naket of Pattani's Khok Pho district at half an hour past midnight, police said. The fire destroyed the entire building. At 2:50 am, a fire was set to the canteen building of Tanyong School in Tambon Muangtia of Mae Lan district in Pattani. It was completely destroyed. At 4:30 am, the living quarter building of officials of the state community in Moo 5 Village in Tambon Dato in Nong Chik was set fire to and completely destroyed. And: Elsewhere in the volatile deep South, men on motorcycles shot dead a member of the Chang Puerk Tambon Administration Organisation (TAO) in Narathiwat's Chanae district. Samsuding Hayeeyuzoe, 38, was attacked as he was heading home from a market. His 12-year-old daughter, who was riding on his motorbike, was not hurt. In Yi-ngor district, Adul Manamudor, 45, a member of the Taporyoh TAO, took three bullets as he travelled along a village road. In Narathiwat a combined force of 200 soldiers and police raided nine locations, netting three out of the nine men wanted. Colonel Manote Ananpertakul, commander of Rangae district police, urged the six other suspects to surrender, promising them due process of law. |
| Posted by:ryuge |