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| 3 gunned down, 3 injured by bombs in southern Thailand |
| 2011-11-02 |
| Three people, a child and two men, were injured in two incidents in Narathiwat province after home-made bombs were detonated. The bombs yesterday followed the fatal shooting of three people at a gas station in the same province on Sunday. The first incident took place at 7 a.m. yesterday when a civilian defense volunteer was inspecting trees felled to block a local road. He stepped on one of the explosive devices and lost his right leg. Police said the bomb was a plastic water pipe filled with 1 kg of explosive. A banner tied to tree branches at the scene had a message in Thai, which said: "October of Tak Bai: As long as those who killed Malays are in power, Thai Buddhists pay for it with their lives." Later, at a rubber plantation, a 16-year-old and a 10-year-old were injured after the older boy stepped on a similar device and lost his left ankle. The younger boy was hit with shrapnel in the torso and both legs, sustaining minor wounds. Police found debris similar to the first bomb. At about 10 a.m., a roadside bomb was detonated on a road near a group of soldiers on foot patrol, but they were not harmed. And in Yala, a bomb squad defused yet another home-made device planted at a bus shelter. Narathiwat police said Police in Yala said they had found a crucial piece of evidence in a series of bomb attacks on October 25 which killed three and injured 60 people - a SIM card in the mobile phone of an |
| Posted by:ryuge |