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| Jihadi violence mars Thai New Year celebrations |
| 2007-04-14 |
| Southern gangs burned down a school in Pattani province as most of the country celebrated the traditional Thai New Year on Friday, then set off an improvised explosive device when a ranger patrol passed by in Narathiwat. Two Thai Army rangers were wounded Friday after a bomb suspected set by insurgents exploded, and a school was burned in a separate attack in the restive southern region, officials said. A patrol vehicle filled with Army rangers in Ruso district of Narathiwat province Friday afternoon when a bomb detonated by not less than three insurgents who were hiding on the roadside, exploded. The impact injured two rangers. Found in the area was a 150-metre long wire and a fire extinguisher cylinder. About half-an-hour later, insurgents burned a one-storey school in Pattani's Mayo district. Firefighters took more than an hour to contain the fire. Four classrooms were damaged. Meanwhile, some 200 local residents gathered outside a mosque in Pattani municipality denouncing the killing of 25-year-old Patcharapon Boonmat on Wednesday. The protestors submitted a letter to the government through the deputy governor, saying that the Pattani public wished to express condolences to the victim's family and denounced the killing as inhumane. Angry villagers in nearby Yala were also rallying at Yala provincial hall for the third day, demanding that both Council for National Security (CNS) chairman Sonthi Boonyaratkalin and Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont met them and received their demands. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Heh, heh wise choice. Dawgs gotta eat. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-04-14 13:59 |
| #1 One school, burnt. Hold the Mayo. (I'm not quitting My day job.) |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-04-14 12:01 |