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| Southeast Asia |
| Two terrorists killed, school bombed in southern Thailand |
| 2007-07-03 |
| Two unidentified gunmen were shot dead by police in Pattani's Yarang district on Tuesday. Four plainclothes policemen on patrol in their pick-up truck saw two young men on a motorcycle who seemed suspect to them, and told them to pull over. The young men opened fire at the police, who exchanged gunfire and the two men were shot dead. The police officers were unscathed. Afterwards police found an assault rifle and a shotgun near their bodies. According to the investigation, the shotgun belonged to a policeman killed in a drive-by shooting in Yarang district on December 6 last year. Also: The bombing of a teacher's room wounded five police officers guarding a school in Narathiwat's Chanae district early Tuesday. A remote-controlled bomb hidden in the ceiling exploded on Tuesday morning. School authorities closed Bannamwon school immediately after the incident. Five policemen who were wounded on duty were rushed to hospital. Meanwhile, police detained seven men suspected of being insurgents and of involvement in bomb attacks in the southern provinces. Five of the detainees were already named in existing arrest warrants. Pol.Lt-Gen. Jetthanakorn Napeetapat announced the news in a press conference after the arrest of the seven suspects during a raid Narathiwat's provincial seat following a tip from a local resident. The police seized more than 100 items including three firearms, gunpowder, explosive devices, gasoline, ammunition, and electronic devices. Police are questioning the detained suspects to try to identify those persons responsible for planning the attacks and bring them to trial. They all denied being involved in the attacks. The governor of Narathiwat said he was not concerned about a possible protest of local residents after police arrested the suspects. He said local authorities had worked with the Narathiwat Provincial Islamic Committee before the police conducted the raid. Members of the committee had prepared local residents regarding the operation, so there was no local obstruction of the police raid or protest against the detention of the suspects. |
| Posted by:ryuge |