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Southeast Asia |
Two killed, 19 wounded in attack in Thai south |
2009-06-07 |
Two people were killed and 19 wounded in an attack by One local defence volunteer died after gunmen armed with assault rifles opened fire from a passing pickup truck at a residential area in Yi-ngo district of Narathiwat, one of three mainly Muslim provinces near the Malaysian border. Five minutes after the shooting, a powerful bomb planted in a nearby vehicle exploded, killing a villager and wounding 19 others. Police said the bomb, which destroyed the vehicle and damaged nearby buildings, was triggered by a mobile phone as the assailants fled. The attack was the latest in a recent upsurge of violence in the deep south, where more than 3,000 people have been killed in a Also: Two unidentified gunmen opened fire at a villager in the southern border province of Yala on Sunday morning. Police said Ekkayut Sae-dan, a 35-year-old resident of Kayu Borkoh sub-district of YalaÂ’s Raman district, was severely injured from gunshot wounds. Mr Ekkayut was rushed to Raman Hospital after he was attacked while riding a motorcycle back home. |
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