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| Defense volunteer killed in southern Thailand |
| 2012-10-18 |
| A village defense volunteer was gunned down in an ambush in YalaÂ’s Krong Penang district on Thursday morning. Witnesses said that the victim was returning home on his motorcycle when gunmen hiding in a roadside rubber forest fired on him with assault weapons. The attackers then fled. The victim took was hit in his torso several times and died on the spot. Police blamed separatist RKK member killed in Narathiwat gun battle A top member of the RKK separatist group wanted on at least 10 warrants was killed in an exchange of fire with police in Narathiwat province on Monday evening. The clash took place after a combined 50-man military-police force laid siege to a house where three or four The dead man was later identified as Sofh Torueno of Narathiwat's Ruso district. He was a core RKK member wanted under warrants for more than 10 cases of violence in three districts. The cases included the murder of a marine in 2004, a attack that killed two marines in front of Lalo railway station in 2004; the shoting and wounding of a police officer in Bacho district in 2005; the attack on an army base in Rangae district from which a number of weapons were stolen; the murder of a soldier in Ruso district; and an attack on a vehicle of owned by a cosmetics company in Rueso, killing the driver, in 2010. A suspected supporter of the |
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