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| Motorcade ambushed in southern Thailand |
| 2011-10-01 |
| A motorcade of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center's secretary-general, Panu Uthairat, was ambushed by Panu was returning from a signing ceremony to promote community enterprises at the Halal Food Industrial Estate in Panare district of Pattani. His motorcade was ambushed on the Panare-Sai Buri road around 1 p.m. Panu was travelling in the first car. Bullets hit a police patrol car that was following his vehicle but no one was wounded. Ten policemen accompanied Panu in their two patrol pickup trucks. The officers fired shots into the roadside bushes where the A patrol vehicle then escorted Panu's car to the local police station. When security authorities returned to the ambush site, they found a patrol pickup truck with a damaged window and bullet holes in the roof. Fifteen spent assault rifles shells were found at the location. It was the second attack on a high-level official in the province in the past six months. In April, a bombing targeted Pattani governor Niphon Narapitakkul in the province. No one was hurt. Meanwhile, a recently-established center led by a former Mr Chaiyong said Yase Pateh, the former head of the Pattani United Liberation Organisation (PULO) chapter based in Europe, is now chief of the so-called Centre for People's Volunteers to Solve the Problems of the Southern Border Provinces. Yase has returned to his native Yala from Germany, where he reportedly owned a Mercedes Benz dealership. He came back after PULO's European office was closed in August. Yase was named the centre chairman to help the SBPAC deal with the southern security strife. Also yesterday, the new Malaysian ambassador to Thailand visited the troubled South. During her visit, ambassador Nazirah Hussain was briefed by Pramuk Lamun, deputy secretary-general of the SBPAC, on the security situation and on measures being taken to confront the Village leader gunned down A village leader in Narathiwat province district was gunned down in Chanae late Saturday morning. Witnesses told police that Waepayunan Sideh, 50, went to follow the progress of a construction of the village mosque by his pickup truck. When he arrived at the construction site and got off his car, a Police blamed separatist Truck driver gunned down A truck driver was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province on Saturday morning. The victim, identified as Pisuth Boonnap, 61, was riding motorcycle heading to a teashop in his village when a |
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