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| Two village leaders gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2012-03-10 |
| Shootings linked to the long-running In Pattani province, a member of the Plonghoi Tambon Administration Organisation was gunned down in Kapaw district. Witnesses said that Doloh Dengla, 50, was siting and talking with his wife and relatives on chairs in front of his house when two gunmen emerged from a car and approached him. They fired at Doloh with a 9 mm handgun and an M16 assault rifle, then fled in the waiting car. The victim was hit several times and died at the scene. In Narathiwat province, a former assistant village leader was killed in a shooting at a roadside pavilion in Yingor district on Saturday morning. Asha Tayeh, 29, was sitting with his two friends at the pavilion on a local road when a gunman in a pickup truck fired at him twice with a shotgun. The attackers then fled. Asha was hit twice and taken to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Police blamed separatist |
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