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| Village guard gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2012-01-26 |
| A village defense volunteer was gunned down in Yala province on Thursday morning. The police received a report from the hospital that a man, shot and seriously wounded, was taken to the hospital and died soon after admission. Police investigators went to the hospital and viewed the corpse. The victim, shot twice, was identified as Hama Nicha, 52, a village guard. Witnesses said that Hama was driving his motorcycle back home from prayers at the village mosque when two District chief escapes bomb The Rangae district chief escaped unharmed from a bomb intended to take his life in Narathiwat province on Thursday morning. The district chief was to chair the opening of a civic event at the village. The bomb went off about 9 a.m. on a road along a railway track while Supawaris Phetkarn, the district chief, and four defense volunteers were traveling by pick-up truck to a local village. Mr Supawaris said as his vehicle was heading down the road, a bomb buried on the road was detonated, apparently by radio. The explosion damaged the vehicle and another car coming in a different direction, leaving a big hole on the road. The district chief and the defense volunteers were not hurt. |
| Posted by:ryuge |