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| Two year old and four others killed in southern Thailand |
| 2009-12-17 |
| A toddler and her father were among five Muslims killed in the latest bout of violence in Thailand's restive south, police said Thursday. The two-year-old and her father, an assistant village chief, were shot as they travelled home by motorcycle in Yala province on Wednesday night. As relatives tried to rush them to hospital for treatment, authorities mistook them for militants and opened fire on the vehicle, wounding two others inside. The assistant chief and his daughter died before reaching the hospital, police said. Earlier in the day a 51-year-old villager was shot and killed as he sat outside his house in Narathiwat province. A 23-year-old Plus: Five soldiers were injured in a bomb explosion in Yarang district of Pattani province in Thursday morning, police reported. The attack happened about 8am while nine soldiers from the Pattani Task Force were patrolling in a vehicle along the Prikri - Klong Mai road near Khok Ya Kha village in tambon Klong Mai. A bomb estimated at about 15 kilogramme planted on the road was detonated as the vehicle passed the spot. Five soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously.The explosion left a big hole on the road. The vehicle skidded off the road and hit a tree. |
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