[The Nation] Thai insurgents gunned down a female gas-station employee in Pattani province yesterday afternoon and then detonated two home-made bombs, injuring seven people, as security forces responded to the shooting.Twenty minutes after Teerapat Chantharojwong was shot and killed by four gunmen on two motorcycles, police officers were inspecting the scene in Khok Pho district when the bombs went off. The blasts wounded four policemen, two paramilitary ranger volunteers and one civilian.
It was reported that paramilitary rangers arrived at the scene while the suspects were still there and shot and injured one suspect. Pattani police chief Pol Maj-General Thanongsak Wangsupa instructed officers to search medical facilities in nearby areas for the injured suspect.
In another deadly attack in the far South, ten militants opened fire on three defense volunteers in front a school Narathiwat province yesterday morning, killing one person and wounding two others. Police said the militants arrived on five motorcycles. The pillion riders opened fire on the three defense volunteers with AK-47 assault rifles. The insurgents also snatched the volunteers' M16 assault rifle and two AK-47s before fleeing. Police removed 60 spent cartridges from the scene.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan revealed that a list of names for a 13-man "front command Cabinet" to tackle the insurgency in the far South was ready and awaiting the signature of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
In Narathiwat's Muang district, 471 marines from eastern Thailand attended a ceremony to report for duty in the far South after arriving in three landing ships at the beach-front pavilion of Chulaborn Military Camp yesterday morning.