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| Security team narrowly escapes bomb blast in Thailand |
| 2010-07-21 |
| A team of security officers escorting a group of teachers has narrowly escaped injury in a roadside bomb attack in Narathiwat's Rueso district. The blast was reported to Rueso district police at about 8.30am yesterday while the six-member security team was clearing the road for the teachers to travel to Ban Samakkhi and Ban Suwari schools. No one was injured as the impact of the explosion went in the opposite direction, Pol Lt Ukrit Sangkhamani, who is heading the investigation, said. The bomb was home-made, weighed 5kg, was stuffed in a metal box and detonated by mobile phone, he said. The blast left a crater in the ground and mobile phone fragments were found nearby, Pol Lt Ukrit said. In Sungai Kolok district, one of nine military ranger volunteers wounded in a bomb attack on Monday was rushed from the district hospital to a larger one in Songkhla's Hat Yai district after his condition became critical. Sungai Kolok police were still trying to determine the identities of two male teenagers captured on a surveillance camera at a roadside pavilion the day before the the bomb went off. In Yala, the provincial police commander has ordered all eight police stations in the province to be careful when responding to bomb attacks as a second bomb is often set to target investigators. |
| Posted by:ryuge |