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| Two gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2012-02-09 |
| A man was gunned down while having tea with his friends and a rubber tapper was murdered in an ambush in Narathiwat province on Tuesday morning. Asi Masila, 39, was killed at a teashop in Narathiwat's Si Sakhon district. He was drinking tea with three friends when two unidentified men on a motorcycle shot at them with a 9 mm pistol and then fled. Asi was hit twice in the chest and died at the scene. In Sungai Padi district, a rubber tapper was killed and his wife seriously wounded in an ambush early this morning. Pol Lt Pongeke Chanta, duty officer at the local police station, led a team to the scene and reported finding the body of Witthaya Rattanakul, 53. He had been shot three times in the back and died on the spot. His wife, Wanna, took three bullets in her leg and hip and was taken to hospital. Witnesses said that the couple were riding a motorcycle to their rubber farm on a rural road when gunmen hiding among the roadside trees fired on them with 9 mm handguns. The attackers then fled. Police blamed both attacks on separatist |
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