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| Motorcycle bomb kills one, injures three in southern Thailand |
| 2012-03-16 |
| A motorcycle bomb exploded in Pattani province yesterday, killing a villager and injuring three others including two soldiers. Meanwhile, a homemade bomb found in Narathiwat province on Wednesday was defused in time. The Pattani bomb attack was aimed at a squad of soldiers on a pickup truck, but also hit two civilians nearby and damaged two motorcycles. The motorcycle containing the bomb had recently been reported as stolen. The explosive was triggered by remote control. Three previous bomb attacks have been carried out at or near the explosion site, located off Route 410 near Kahong cemetery, police added. In Narathiwat, a bomb squad defused a homemade bomb attached to a power pole after it was detected by paramilitary rangers who were on footpatroldistrict. The bomb, consisting of 20kg of explosives mixed in with gasoline-soaked fertilizer, shrapnel created from pieces of steel and housed in a cooking gas cylinder, could have hurt people in a 50 meter range, police said. Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapha, who is currently visting the deep South, said the government's three year plan was heading in the right direction and that it would be evaluated once the emergency law comes to an end in June. He said that people affected by authorities' mistakes, crime and abuse, as well as those mistakenly killed or innocents who died in custody, were entitled to as much compensation as victims of political turmoil. He said that the issue was being sorted out by the military, the Interior Ministry and the Internal Security Operations Command. |
| Posted by:ryuge |