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| Four Muslims, one Buddhist killed in Thai south |
| 2007-05-24 |
| Four Muslims and a Buddhist were killed and six troops wounded in four separate attacks in Thailand's rebellious Muslim-majority far south, police said on Wednesday. At least 10 masked gunmen fired into a Muslim village late on Tuesday, killing three men and a woman, police said in Yala, one of the three southern provinces caught up in three years of separatist insurgency in which more than 2,100 people have died. "They used all sorts of guns, shooting ramdomly" and the four people were killed in different houses, a police investigator told Reuters by telephone. The identity of the gunmen was unknown, but police presumed they were separatists, although Muslims accuse government supporters of killings. On Wednesday, a Buddhist government official was shot dead by a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle while he was heading to work in the city of Yala on his own motorcycle, they said. Shortly after, a 20 kg (44-lb) bomb in a fire extinguisher exploded on a road in nearby Yaha district as a truck carrying 10 soldiers drove past, wounding three slightly, police said. In the nearby district of Than To, militants ambushed another patrol truck of soldiers with guns and a roadside bomb, wounding three, they said. And: Insurgents exploded a bomb at a police office in southern Thailand's province of Yala early Thursday, prompting a nearby school to close for the day, according to local newspaper Bangkok Post's website. There was no report of casualties from the attack and damage was being assessed. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #6 Four Muslims, one Buddhist killed in Thai south At least they're starting to get the kill ratio right. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-24 13:21 |
| #5 #3 Nope, the muslims killed were killed BY the violent muslims. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2007-05-24 11:56 |
| #4 The girlfriend seat behind the driver, Redneck Jim. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-24 11:31 |
| #3 Obviously, the Buddhists, after enduring great loss and pain are finally starting to respond.Kill 10 Muslims for every Buddhist murdered, and this finally starts to register on the primitive mind. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-24 11:11 |
| #2 Piggy backing on the back. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-05-24 09:17 |
| #1 gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle British to American translation please, does "Pillon" mean sideways, backwards, or simply second? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-05-24 06:19 |