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| Homemade bomb wounds 4 in Thailand |
| 2007-05-22 |
| An Australian photographer and three policemen were wounded Tuesday when a bomb believed set by Muslim insurgents exploded in southern Thailand, officials said. The homemade bomb, hidden on a roadside, went off when a police team was inspecting the body of a Buddhist man shot dead and set afire in Yala province, said police Lt. Col. Saratwuth Wongderm. The officer said he believed the insurgents had set a trap for police, who rushed to the scene after a caller informed them that a person had been slain. Australian photographer Philip Blenkinsop, who was on assignment for Time magazine, was among the wounded. "I was about four meters away from the body where the bomb was hidden. I am very lucky that the bomb didn't have too many sharp nails in it. I pity the man who was shot in the head and burned," Blenkinsop said at a hospital where he was being treated for minor wounds to the face and eye. Blenkinsop, based in Bangkok since the mid-1980s, is an award-winning photographer who has covered a number of conflicts, including the guerrilla war in Indonesia's Aceh province, the communist insurgency in Nepal and the plight of the ethnic Hmong in communist Laos. I tried to post the relevant Bangkok Post article this morning, but it wouldn't take. Maybe for the best, because at the link to this version, you can see a video of the actual explosion ~ if you don't mind sitting through an advertisement. |
| Posted by:ryuge |