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| Multiple attacks leave two dead, four injured in southern Thailand |
| 2010-05-14 |
| A man has been killed and two volunteer rangers injured in separate attacks by Two assailants drove up on a motorcycle and a man, wielding a .38 pistol, who rode pillion, shot Nimare in the abdomen while he was walking home in tambon Maumawee yesterday. He died at the scene. Earlier, just 300 metres from where Nimare was killed, a convoy of rangers and volunteer rangers was ambushed in a roadside bomb and shooting attack, leaving two officers wounded. The bomb was hidden in a basket which was left on the roadside and triggered by a radio signal. Police said after the bomb went off, A 70-strong ranger and police force immediately sealed off the area in a 1km radius from the blast. The force found a piece of red cloth tied to a tree and a paint mark on the road near the bomb. The signs were thought to be the bomb locator and the meeting point for the Meanwhile, a combined team of police and troops seized an M-16 rifle, a shotgun, ammunition and an amount of illegal drugs from a house in Panare district in Pattani after a tip-off from intelligence sources. Police arrested Armah Jehte, the house owner, on suspicion of being involved in the weapons or drug trade and the Plus: A health official was shot to death in Cho Airong district of Narathiwat province on Friday morning, police said. Pol Capt Mad-usen Mosani said Wae-using Doleh, 54, a health official of Pileng village of tambon Marubo-ok, while traveling on his motorcycle on Pileng - Marubo-ok road to work, was shot six times in his head, chest and back by the pillion rider of another motorcycle at a point-blank range. He was killed instantly. Police recovered six spent 9mm shells at the scene. In another incident, two soldiers were injured in a bomb explosion while patrolling on foot on Highway 410 in tambon Yarang of Pattani's Yarang district on Friday morning. The home-made bomb, weighing about 5kg, which was placed under a roadside bench, was detonated when the patrol arrived at the scene. |
| Posted by:ryuge |