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Southeast Asia
Nurse gunned down at market in southern Thailand
2012-04-19
A woman who worked as an assistant nurse was gunned down while at a village market in Pattani province on Wednesday.

Wanna Sornsuwan, 29, an assistant nurse of Yupparaj Sai Buri Hospital, was among the crowd buying food at the Ban Kayi market. A terrorist man approached her and fired three shots at her with a .38 pistol, seriously injuring her. The terrorist gunman then ran to Ms Wanna's motorcycle and fled on it. Ms Wanna was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Police are examining images from the security cameras.

Arsonists burn school, try to bomb investigating policemen

A school building was burned down by a terrorist an arsonist in Narathiwat province on Wednesday night, and police blamed separatist terrorists militants.

The two-story building as set ablaze at about 8:20 p.m. while members of the village security team guarding the school were at the village mosque for prayers. Traces of fuel oil were found at two spots at the burned building.

Pol Col Prayong said while he was traveling in a pick-up truck to the school after the attack to examine the scene, a bomb buried in the road was remotely detonated by terrorists militants hiding in a roadside rubber plantation. The blast made a crater in the road about one meter deep and 2.5 meters wide, but his vehicle escaped with only slight damage.

None of the police on board, including himself, were hurt, the district police chief said.
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