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| Ambush causes five deaths, 12 injuries in southern Thailand |
| 2013-09-28 |
| [Bangkok Post] Four policemen and a villager were killed and 12 others wounded in Narathiwat province on Friday. The local resident was caught in the crossfire between Pol Capt Prachaup Nimruang, head of a local bomb disposal unit, said he and 15 other officers were returning to their base after checking out a bombing incident on Friday afternoon. The team decided to take a mountain pass as a shortcut. As they passed through, a bomb placed on a rocky slope went off and the rocks tumbled onto the road. At least 20 gunmen came out of hiding, fired at their four vehicles and threw nails on the road to prevent them from escaping. Three officers were wounded in the shootout which lasted more than an hour and the During the gun battle, a civilian car passed and was fired upon. The driver of the vehicle was wounded and his passenger was killed. In a neighboring district, a police car heading to provide backup for the ambushed bomb squad overturned, resulting in four deaths and seven injuries. The afternoon incidents followed the drive-by shooting of a woman in Rangae district earlier in the day. According to witnesses, the woman was traveling on her motorcycle when a gunman on another motorcycle shot at her with a handgun. The assailant then fled. The woman took six bullets to the body and was taken to the hospital. |
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