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Southeast Asia
Grenade attack injures seven in Pattani
2011-07-31
As the jihad in southern Thailand continues...
Five police and two civilians have been injured in a bomb attack at a tea shop in Pattani's Mae Lan district, and two military ranger volunteers were wounded in a landmine trap in a different district of the same province.

A couple of terrorists attackers riding on a motorcycle threw a grenade at seven people who were drinking tea at a shop owned by Pol Sen Sgt Maj Wiraphong Pomsakun of the Mae Lan district police station, said the victims. The victims were transported to a nearby hospital and later discharged because most of their injuries were considered minimal.

Meanwhile, a military ranger has lost her leg in a landmine blast in Panare district. Ranger volunteer Sukchitratda Intharamuang, 29, stepped on the landmine which blew off her left leg. It also injured her colleague, military ranger volunteer Somwong Phetsing, 51.

The were inspecting a deserted military ranger outpost where a shooting attack was reported the previous night. The two were hospitalised. One bomb was found and destroyed before the accident, which was about 100 metres from the first mine.

A man was shot dead in Pattani on Friday night. Rohima Chewae, 42, was gunned down in Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani while riding a motorcycle on his way back home in Thung Yang Daeng district of Muang, Yala. He died instantly.

In Bannang Sata district of neighbouring Yala province, military ranger volunteer Chalit Nusang, 31, was shot by a terrorist gunman who was hiding while Mr Chalit was travelling on the back of a pick-up truck along with several other volunteers.
Posted by:Eohippus Phater7165

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