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| Bombs mars start of Ramadan in Thai south | ||
| 2012-07-22 | ||
The holy month started ominously in the southern region, where most Thai Muslims live and where fighting has claimed thousands of lives. The car bombing started fires at shops and residences and sent black smoke wafting from a row of four-story buildings in a commercial area of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat province. Seven people were injured, including four who were briefly trapped on the roof of a burning building, said police Col. Maitree Chimcherd. He said rebels hid the homemade bomb in a pickup truck parked in front of a computer store. On Thursday night, a roadside bomb killed a villager and wounded his companion while they were hunting for squirrels in the woods in Yala province, said police Col. Wichai Jaengsakul. Still, residents of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces flocked to local markets Friday to shop for fresh and dried fruit including date palm to be consumed at dusk after the first day of fasting ends.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 ...Anybody remember - not sure if it was Desert Storm or Iraqi Freedom - that we were told by the Muslim community how awful and sacrilegious it was to even think about combat during Ramadan? How it would turn the entire world against us? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2012-07-22 08:29 |