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| Triple bombings in southern Thailand wound 16 |
| 2010-02-19 |
| Two policemen and two soldiers were wounded in two bombings in Yala, and 12 local residents were injured in a roadside bomb blast in Pattani, according to the authorities, but the motive is still unclear. In Bannang Sata district, two border patrol police officers were slightly wounded by a bomb explosion while they were on duty. After that another bomb exploded as Bannang Sata police superintendent Pol Col Sompien Aeksomya [led] his team to inspect the site where the explosion occurred earlier. An estimated five kilogramme bomb was planted at a motorcycle parked at the roadside and was detonated when the team of policemen passed by. However, no one was wounded as the bomb failed to function properly. The police vehicle was slightly damaged. According to initial investigation, the motorcycle's registered owner was gunned down on June 13, 2007. In another related incident, a bomb was detonated at the entrance of a village, two soldiers from the Yala special unit were wounded in the incident. Meanwhile, twelve people were wounded in a roadside bomb in Pattani. Among the injured, two people were managers of a food factory. The victims were travelling in a pick-up truck in the provincial seat when it passed a tricycle which had a bomb attached. After the incident responding police found a three-kilogramme bomb nearby and defused it. |
| Posted by:ryuge |