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| Three former village leaders gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2013-08-26 |
| Three retired village leaders were gunned down in Yala province Saturday in an attack believed to have been carried out by separatist The attack happened in the morning when gunmen on the back of a pickup truck opened fire with automatic weapons at a tea shop. The victims, all elderly Muslim men, were identified as Chalee Samato, Harong Taba and Tuansoh Waba. A fourth man was injured. The gunmen also stole three pistols from their victims. Police said a separatist group was probably responsible for the attack. Internal Security Operations Command's (Isoc) Fourth Region Forward Command spokesman, Col Pramote Promin, said, "We had intelligence indicating that insurgents were going to target teachers and soldiers, but we didn't expect them to attack villagers." Two rubber tappers were also shot and injured while working in their plantation early Saturday. Meanwhile, four soldiers and four villagers were injured when a bomb planted in a garbage bin was detonated at an intersection in the Sungai Kolok municipality area of Narathiwat province on Saturday evening. |
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