[Bangkok Post] Five paramilitary rangers were killed and another badly injured in a roadside bomb explosion and the following attack on their patrol by gunmen wearing green outfits in Narathiwat province. The bomb went off on Thursday afternoon as a patrol vehicle carrying a ranger team was approaching Ringae village in Chanae district. Metal spikes were also found scattered over the road. Police said the six-man patrol was on the way back to their base and went passed a group of ten armed men in green outfits, similar to border patrol police uniforms, walking along the road. When the patrol vehicle was just 100 meters beyond them, the bomb went off and those men opened fire at the rangers.
Before fleeing, the attackers took six M16 assault rifles from the dead and wounded rangers, and set alight the bodies of some of the slain rangers.