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| Six killed in wave of terror across southern Thailand |
| 2009-05-20 |
Police said at least three people had launched an ambush on the 41-year-old elementary school teacher as he travelled to school in troubled Yala province. Security forces now provide teachers with a guarded escort to and from work, but police said the elementary school teacher had not been part of the protected convoy on Tuesday. Militants ambushed an army foot patrol later Tuesday and shot dead two rangers in neighbouring Pattani province, police said. Meanwhile a 39-year-old Muslim man on his way to play football was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province on Monday evening, police said. Plus: Two elderly women were shot dead and their bodies set on fire on Wednesday in the latest atrocity in the troubled far south, police said. They blamed the murders on One soldier was also slightly wounded when a small bomb exploded several metres from the bodies as he went with police to investigate. |
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