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Southeast Asia
Four killed in two attacks in southern Thailand
2014-01-30
While unrest in the far South continued yesterday with two attacks that killed a total of four people, including two soldiers, police in Pattani province set up checkpoints to look for three stolen motorcycles that they fear will be used in future bomb attacks.

Pattani deputy police chief Pol Colonel Thanongsak Wangsupa instructed officials to set up checkpoints, especially on main roads, to intercept the transport of illegal items such as weapons, explosives and suspicious vehicles. A Thai security intelligence source had alerted police that a group of five or six terrorists insurgents had made away with three motorcycles to cause chaos in community areas of Pattani.

In Yala province, two soldiers were killed when a motorcycle bomb went off last night. The two soldiers were riding motorcycles as part of a convoy towards their base after a community activity at a local school. Police suspect the terrorist insurgent cell led by Apisi Yusoh was responsible for a motorcycle bomb that was parked alongside the road and went off while the convoy was passing through.

Elsewhere in Yala, three volunteer rangers were wounded by two bombs yesterday morning. Police suspect that a terrorist insurgent cell, led by a man identified as Saudi Satorpa, carried out the attack.

Meanwhile, unknown gunmen gunned down two villagers and seriously wounded another at a rubber plantation in Narathiwat province district yesterday morning. The three men, who are related, were going to tap rubber when the gunmen opened fire at them and then fled.
Posted by:ryuge

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