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Soldier, two students hurt in school blast
A home-made bomb exploded at a school in Sungai Padi district yesterday, injuring a security officer and two students. The bomb was detonated by mobile phone near the entrance of Thai Rath Wittaya 89 school around 7 am, after security officers spotted a suspicious object wrapped in a plastic bag. The bomb seriously injured Snr Sgt-Maj Pongpraram Phewlueng, 46. Two students, Sahira Sahae-Duerus, 8, and Asari Wati Dueloh, 12, were slightly hurt.Shortly afterwards, an eight-member military unit was hit by a booby trap while removing road spikes to clear the way for troop reinforcements who rushed to the bomb-hit school. The soldiers were unharmed, but Anirute Jehpor, 16, a resident who was driving behind the military vehicle, was severely injured in the blast. In Yala, investigators named Rommuelee Jeh-ha Samoh, 20, as one of the attackers of the security officers who escorted teachers to Ban Lak Ket school in Yaha district on Thursday, when one officer was wounded. He was placed on the most-wanted list of Muslim insurgents as an ambush unit leader in the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) radical group. An intelligence source said a number of rubber-pressing machines had been stolen in the three southern provinces. The cylinders from the machines can be used as containers for bombs, in the same manner as fire extinguishers, but their explosive power is much greater. Elsewhere in the same province, Tuanyunu Pasae, 52, a village headman in Muang district was shot dead by two drive-by gunmen. Meanwhile, caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Chidchai Wannasathit said an explosion at a market in Narathiwat's Waeng district which killed an officer on Thursday, might have been the work of the RKK group. Posted by: ryuge 2006-07-15 |
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