Two Muslims were gunned down in Thailand's restive south while a powerful bomb attack that injured dozens claimed its first fatality, police said Wednesday. Police also said Wednesday that a 38-year-old Muslim man was shot dead in Pattani as he drove his son to school on Tuesday, while a bomb later that day wounded seven security volunteer forces in the same province. In Pattani on Wednesday morning, gunmen shot dead a 47-year-old deputy village chief.
Following the deadly spike in violence in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, the deputy prime minister in charge of national security, Suthep Thaugsuban, said he would travel to the insurgency-plagued region next week. He expressed dismay at the explosive in Sungai Kolok, as it was hidden in a car that had passed a screening by a bomb detection machine.
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Six soldiers of the No 15 special unit were seriously wounded by a roadside bomb explosion and ambush late this morning, Bannang Sata police said on Thursday. The bomb went off while the soldiers were patrolling the Guelong-Palor Bata road at Guelong village in YalaÂ’s Bannang Sata district. They also were ambushed by gunmen hiding in roadside forest, who fled the scene immediately afterward. Police blame