Two soldiers were blown from their motorcycle by a remote controlled bomb then savagely gunned down by suspected After the report of an attack in Narathiwat's Ra-ngae district, a team of police and a bomb disposal unit arrived at the scene. They found two field soldiers lying in a pool of blood next to a damaged motorcycle. Their bodies were riddled with bullets.
About 20 meters from the bodies, police found a two-foot deep bomb crater. More than 20 spent shell casings were found on the road.
It appears that the gunmen detonated the bomb when the two soldiers passed by. They then approached the two wounded officers and opened fire on them. The assailants then stole M16 and AK rifles from the soldiers and fled.
In Narathiwat's Cho Airong district on Sunday morning, four policemen from a bomb disposal unit were slightly wounded when a pickup truck in which they were traveling was hit by a landmine.
The unit was on the way back to Narathiwat town when the bomb was detonated remotely by radio. The unit was returning from examining the site of a bomb blast in Sungai Padi district at about 8:20 p.m. last night.