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| Bomb kills 3 soldiers in one of the jihadi attacks in southern Thailand |
| 2007-04-21 |
| A roadside bomb killed three soldiers and wounded one seriously in Thailand's Muslim-majority far south on Saturday, a day after Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont visited the region, police said. One soldier was killed instantly and two died later in hospital. Another soldier was being treated for serious head wounds, a hospital official said. The soldiers were in a Humvee on patrol in Pattani, one of three provinces in the Muslim deep south, when the buried pipe bomb exploded as they drove past, police said. On a tour of the deep south on Friday, Surayud said he supported a move to offer some sort of amnesty to the insurgents, but details of the idea floated by local army commanders were unclear. "We should give it careful consideration and that is what the government is doing," he told reporters. Surayud has vowed not to reverse a softly-softly approach to resolving the insurgency despite growing calls on the government to take tougher action against the militants after the savage murder of a Buddhist woman earlier this month. "We will seek to establish peaceful dialogue with good people and deal with the bad people through the legal process. We will not resort to measures outside the law in tackling this problem," Surayud said. Plus: Insurgents opened fire on a group of soldiers guarding a monk during morning alms rounds in the restive South on Saturday morning. No one was injured in the shootout. Police said three insurgents opened fire on four soldiers who were guarding a monk on a road in Rangae district of Narathiwat. The soldiers immediately returned fire. The shooting went on for about five minutes before the insurgents fled, according to police. The monk, from Wat Sangkatitaram, was then quickly brought back to the temple. In Pattani, insurgents set fire to a schoolhouse in Ban Kohchan in Mayo district on Saturday morning. The fire partly damaged the school as firemen were able to control the flame within half an hour. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 Love it, RC. Looooooove it! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-21 21:59 |
| #2 Know Islam, no peace. No Islam, know peace. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-04-21 10:31 |
| #1 Something changed... Ah! No "restive"! |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-04-21 08:31 |