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| At least ten injured in grenade attack in southern Thailand |
| 2012-03-01 |
| At least ten people in the Rueso district of Thailand's Narathiwat province were injured after two teenagers wearing school uniforms tossed a hand grenade at the crowd on a sidewalk early Thursday morning. Two young men wearing Islamic school uniforms rode a motorcycle to downtown Rueso district where a number of people were buying food at the roadside when a man riding pillion threw a hand grenade at the crowd. At least ten people were wounded, including six women, three men and a three-year-old boy were hurt in the attack. Among these two were severely wounded. Three wounded in two attacks Two soldiers and an assistant village leader were injured in two attacks, one each in Narathiwat and Yala provinces, on Thursday. In Narathiwat, In Yala, Makruri Mani, 40, the assistant leader of a village was shot at by gunmen while delivering some articles to a tea shop early this morning. He was hit in the left arm. Multiple arson incidents in Pattani province Fires broke out almost simultaneously at six different locations in Pattani province early Thursday morning. In Muang district, a fire began in the Super Department Store in the business district of Pattani town about 1 a.m. Fire engines rushed to the scene and the fire was brought under control in about 20 minutes after causing damage to part of the building and some stock. A security guard said he heard an explosion before seeing the fire and smoke. Police said the fire was caused by an incendiary bomb thrown into the store. About the same time, another fire occurred in the front of Big C superstore in Muang district. The fire was quickly put out by security guards after causing some damage. In Khok Pho district, the first fire was in a warehouse and the second at the KP Minimart in the Khok Pho municipality. Pattani governor Theera Mintrasak said each of the four fires were started by an incendiary bomb. In Sai Buri district, a fire broke out at a highway office on the Pattani-Narathiwat road. The fire partly damaged the highway office and another building nearby. A hand grenade was also found inside a can and disposed of by police arriving at the scene. Another fire was set on the tires of an 18-wheel truck parked on a road causing little damage. Police believed the arson was the work of southern |
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