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| Southeast Asia |
| Thai railway bridge bombed |
| 2006-08-02 |
| Today Militants detonated a bomb on a bridge on the main railway line through Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Wednesday, killing three policemen and stranding thousands of travellers, police and a rail official said. At least five trains, including one from Bangkok and one from the Thai-Malaysian border, had to stop at nearby stations as security officials checked the line for damage and more devices, officials said. "Police and troops are making sure there are no more bombs hidden on the rails and rail officials are checking if the bridge is physically safe for trains to cross," state rail official Thanongsak Pongprasert told Reuters. Militants detonated a 5kg bomb placed near the bridge as a car of four rail patrolmen passed by. Three of the officers died instantly, and the other was wounded. "We've found two bodies so far and are still looking for the other," an officer at the local Chana police station said. The blast followed a night of arson, bombs and shooting across Thailand's three southernmost provinces, where more than 1 300 people have been killed in a two-year Muslim separatist insurgency, officials said. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 The Bridge on the River Kwai? |
| Posted by: glenmore 2006-08-02 13:29 |