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| Five wounded in series of attacks in southern Thailand |
| 2014-05-20 |
| Two soldiers and three defense volunteers were wounded in a series of attacks yesterday in Narathiwat and Pattani provinces. In Narathiwat, Corporal Somsak Yuklai sustained serious head wounds after a bomb attack on rangers guarding teachers about 8:40 a.m. An hour later, another bomb exploded near the Rangae district, wounding the three defense volunteers. The first bomb appeared to target rangers assigned to guard teachers who had just begun the new school year. In Pattani province, a soldier was shot in the neck after he and his unit went to investigate reported gunfire near a Muslim school just 500 meters from their base. Suspected Meanwhile, Internal Security Operation Command spokesman Col Banpot Poolpian said 24 suspects have been arrested for allegedly carrying out recent bomb attacks in Yala municipality. Five of the suspects made confessions, he said. |
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