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| Two RKK militants gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2014-11-15 |
| Two wanted militant leaders were gunned down and five others arrested in a shootout yesterday in Pattani province. One of the dead suspects was Adul Rahman Jehtae, who was wanted under 84 arrest warrants for numerous crimes. The other dead man was Russali Baesorohmae, who had 10 arrest warrants issued against him. Police said both were foreign-trained commando chiefs acting as the heads of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil cells active locally and previously in Yala province. One of the five men arrested is Tuloh Keeyah, a former deputy head of a local administration organisation. The shootout began after security forces sealed off a village to look for high-profile targets at dawn. Muslim clerics and community leaders were brought in to negotiate surrenders. The five arrested men surrendered, but the two suspects who were killed remained inside the house and opened fire on security forces in a gunfight that lasted about two minutes. Meanwhile, two suspected insurgents hurled a grenade from a bridge in Pattani's Muang district which failed to explode when it hit the ground because the safety pin had not been removed. |
| Posted by:ryuge |