A After receiving a tip from suspicious villagers five armed men hiding in a house in the middle of a rubber plantation in Raman district, the joint security force surrounded the targeted house at 6:25 a.m. They told the men inside to show themselves, who then ran out of the house and fired at the security team with assault rifles. The police and soldiers returned fire.
After a ten minute gun battle, police inspected the scene and found the dead body of Abdulloh Lasi, 30, lying 100 meters from the house. His right hand was still clutched an M16 assault rifle. They also found Duroning Lijiag, who was injured in the fight. He was taken to the hospital. Three other men managed to escape.
Also in Raman district, separatist
Soldiers reported to police that the explosion occurred on the Patae Rayor-Tanoh Puyoh road about 11 a.m. An explosive ordnance disposal unit was rushed to the scene.
Police found a three meter-wide crater in the road and the soldiersÂ’ parked armoured personnel carrier nearby. The only damage was to the headlights on the vehicle. They also found a blown-up cooking gas cylinder and a 100 meter-long wire linking the bombÂ’s remains to a detonating switch in the roadside trees.
Soldiers said that a 12-man unit were in the vehicle going to inspect a suspicious box placed in front of a school. As the soldiers arrived, the home-made bomb was detonated. It went off too soon and failed to cause injuries.
Police attributed the bomb attack to a separatist militant group led by Rusdee Samae and Abdulloh Lituemung, wanted under arrest warrants for inciting violence in southern Thailand.