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| Attacks in southern Thailand kill three, wound 10 |
| 2011-07-12 |
| Three people were gunned down in southern Thailand and 10 people, including nine security officers, were wounded in two separate bomb attacks yesterday. Some said that the violent attacks were in reaction to the Pheu Thai Party winning the election. In Narathiwat province, Mama Samoh, 49, chairman of the Imam Club in Rangae district, and his 32-year-old wife Tuayya Naliya Samoh were killed at around 5:45 a.m. while they were riding a motorcycle to a rubber plantation. About 100 meters from their home, gunmen ambushed them, opening fire with two M16 and one AK47 rifles, spraying their bodies with bullets. More than 30 used shells were found at the scene. Police suspect the murder was the work of In the Mayo district of Pattani province, former village leader Yuso Adae, 62, was gunned down on his way home after praying at a mosque. A gunman shot him with a handgun when he stopped at a store to buy cigarettes. And in Yala province, 10 people were wounded in two seemingly coordinated bomb explosions in Raman district yesterday morning. Police received a report that a bomb wounded a rubber tree farmer there around 7 a.m. The bomb exploded while Sunthorn Maneesangkha, 41, was tapping rubber. He suffered an wound to his leg and was taken to the hospital. Around 9 a.m., another explosion occurred when a team of police and bomb disposal team were investigating the blast site. Nine officers were wounded, three of them seriously. In yet another attack, this one in Yala, a pickup was blown apart by a roadside bomb in Muang district yesterday morning. There were no casualties, fortunately. The blast occurred when Chawat Kongsak, 48, was parking his truck near a rubber plantation after taking a number of students to school. Mr Chawat was unharmed but the vehicle was heavily damaged. The explosion left a crater one meter deep in the road and scattered metal shards around the area. Police blamed |
| Posted by:ryuge |