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| Shop owner gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2011-02-27 |
| The owner of a construction supplies shop was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province on Sunday morning. Boraheng Yusoh, 54, was going in his pickup truck on a local road when the passenger of a motorcycle fired an AK47 at him. He was hit several times and taken to the hospital, where he was later pronounce dead. Police blamed Bombing suspect dies in clash Security forces arrested a suspected Fifty officers from the Narathiwat 35 special task force and a local office unearthed a .50 calibre rifle with a magazine and an assortment of bullets, including AK rifle bullets, M16 rifle bullets, carbine rifle bullets and .32 calibre rounds at 11 a.m. yesterday. The ammunition was retrieved from an area where villagers had previously alerted authorities to suspicious buried items. While digging up the weapons cache, the security force detained a man for questioning after spotting him walking around the area. At 3:15 p.m., authorities raided a rubber plantation in Narathiwat province after a tipoff that the area had been used as a hideout by the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) separatist movement. The raid led to a 20-minute gunfight between the force and what was believed to be three Arong is known to be a bomb maker and was wanted by police for questioning in at least 10 cases, including the car bomb attack outside a massage parlor in Narathiwat on Feb 19 which injured 18 people. Two guns were seized after the gunfight. A check of the firearms showed they had been stolen from a military unit in 2004. In Yala province, three men suspected of being involved in the Feb 13 car bomb and the Feb 21 motorcycle bomb were arrested in a raid yesterday morning. The detained suspects were identified as Zofan Baka, Abiya Laemo, Anuwat Cheyuzo. |
| Posted by:ryuge |