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| Violence continues unabated in southern Thailand |
| 2016-04-17 |
| [The Nation] As local residents celebrated Songkran [the traditional Thai New Year], unrest in the far South continued unabated, with several attacks yesterday in Pattani and Narathiwat provinces. One incident, after midnight yesterday, saw a group of militants open fire at a local government office in Pattani's Mai Kaen district. A bomb was also detonated there, resulting in property damage. Around dawn, four members of a paramilitary ranger unit were injured by a roadside bomb in Yarang district. Later that morning, a villager was shot by a gunman on a motorcycle in Nong Chik district. In Narathiwat a roadside time bomb went off in Rusoh district. There were no casualties. |
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