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| Southeast Asia |
| One dead, ten wounded in two attacks in southern Thailand |
| 2008-07-22 |
| Eleven more casualties were registered Tuesday in the continuing violence in Thailand's southernmost provinces. One Thai Army soldier was killed and five others were wounded in a bombing and shooting attack in the violence-plagued province of Narathiwat. The bomb was buried near a deserted mosque in Narathiwat's Cho Ai Rong district. The 20-kilogramme bomb was apparently command-detonated when 14 soldiers from a teacher protection unit were patrolling the area. The military unit then came under attack from an undetermined number of assailants, and exchanged gunfire with the attackers for 20 minutes. Private Saengpet Boonlak was killed, while five other Army soldiers were wounded, and were rushed to hospital. Meanwhile, Pol.Cpl. Sukit Srikanun, who was seriously wounded in a bomb attack in Yala on Monday, died in hospital. Also in Yala five police officers were wounded in a bomb explosion while they were inspecting damage done to a rubber plantation destroyed by presumed insurgents. |
| Posted by:ryuge |