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Southeast Asia
Bomb injures two students in southern Thailand
2012-09-27
Two students were wounded by shrapnel when their school bus was hit by an bomb blast in Narathiwat province Thursday morning.

Police were alerted about the bomb attack at 7:40 a.m. It took place at a bridge in Bukeh Palash village. Arriving at the scene, police found the school bus, which had a flat tire and was riddled with shrapnel. Police believed that terrorists insurgents planted explosives on the approach to the bridge and detonated them as the school bus passed by.

The bus driver told police that he drove the bus every morning to pick up some 70 students and had an army vehicle in front of him for protection. When the bus was approaching the bridge, the explosives were set off, wounding two students who were sitting near the front door.

Police believe that the terrorists insurgents were targeting soldiers in the army vehicle but missed.

Meanwhile in Yala province, police were alerted about a bomb attack in a rubber plantation which injured a cow. The investigation found that villagers heard the sound of an explosion at 3:50 a.m. but did not come out to check. In the morning, they found a cow with an injured leg by a rubber tree and alerted police. The bomb squad defused two booby traps nearby.

Police believed that terrorists insurgents planted the explosives at the base tree and at two others nearby to lure officials to the scene before detonating them.
Posted by:ryuge

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