[Bangkok Post] Four Thai ranger volunteers were killed and five others and a civilian injured when an improvised bomb buried under the road was detonated in Pattani province on Friday morning. The bomb was buried under a road in Sai Buri district and went off as a military pickup truck carrying a nine-man squad drove over it. Five rangers were sitting inside the cab of the pickup, and the four others on the back. They were on patrol providing protection for teachers. The area where the attack occurred is being dug up for the installation of water pipes. When the patrol arrived there, the four rangers on the back got off to walk alongside the vehicle. The bomb had been hidden under the road and was detonated beneath the vehicle.
The force of the blast tore the vehicle in two. Four of the five rangers inside the cab died on the spot. Five others, including the four on foot, were wounded, two seriously. A woman civilian who was passing by was also injured.