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Southeast Asia
Terrorists kill two, injure 12 in seperate attacks in southern Thailand
2008-03-18
Two people were killed and eight others wounded in two separate terrorist insurgent attacks in this southern province of Thailand on Monday.

Two men were shot dead while travelling by a pickup truck on a road in Raman district. An unknown number of gunmen followed the victims in another pickup truck and opened fire on them.

In a separate attack on the same day, eight people including a soldier were wounded in a bomb blast in YalaÂ’s Bannang Sata district. The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle parked near a market.

Meanwhile, Amnat Sarae, a chef at CS Pattani Hotel who was seriously injured in Saturday night's bomb explosion, was pronounced dead on Sunday, bringing the death toll from the incident to two. Twelve people were injured, two of them seriously. In the Saturday incident, a man was killed after two bomb explosions rocked the CS Pattani Hotel. The hotel owner, concurrently a senator, was among the injured.

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Two men were wounded in a bomb blast at a mosque in this southern border province of Yala Tuesday morning. Early on Tuesday a pick-up truck stopped outside the mosque and an unidentiified assailant was seen throwing the bomb into the mosque, wounding the two men.

Meanwhile, in Pattani, the police inspected a tea shop attacked by terrorists insurgents on Monday night. The bomb was hidden under a bench and was remotely detonated by a mobile phone. Two persons were wounded in the bombing and were sent to hospital.

Meanwhile, in Narathiwat a suspected terrorist insurgent was shot dead and another was detained for questioning during a raid in Narathiwat on Tuesday. Soldiers scoured an area in Ruso district and an unknown number of attackers opened fire at officials. After an exchange of gunfire, the assailants disengaged, leaving one of their number dead from the encounter.
Posted by:ryuge

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