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| Man gunned down, wife injured in southern Thailand |
| 2011-02-09 |
| A gunman on a motorcycle attacked a couple in Yala province on Tuesday and the husband later died at hospital. Mahama Sulong, 58, and Koseeyoh Sulong, 49, were riding a motorcycle when two assailants on a motorcycle followed them and fired several times at them. Passers-by got them to hospital, where Mr Mahama later died. His wife, shot twice, was transferred to another hospital. Also in Yala, two soldiers were injured in a bombing on Tuesday morning. 12 soldiers on motorcycles were escorting teachers when a five kilogram bomb, buried underground, exploded in on a district road. Fortunately, the bomb failed to function properly, so only two soldiers were injured. Meanwhile, the Pattani provincial court issued warrants for three men suspected of murdering five local villagers on Feb 3. The suspects are Aleeyasa Samoh, 29, Samree Hatae, 26, and Lukman Kasaha. The court also approved warrants for two men, Lukman Pulaprape, 25, a Yala native and Abdul-asi Aeso, 24, of Pattani for involvement in a gun attack which left a villager dead and two others injured in Pattani's Yarang district on February 4. Terrorist nabbed during military raid A suspected 50 soldiers raided an area in the Baan Jor Kor mountain range in Cho Ai Rong district after learning that a hideout of a Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) militia was located there and that they were plotting an attack. Thai soldiers found an RKK base of operations guarded by six or seven armed men. After a 15 minute gunbattle, the |
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