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| Two vendors gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2011-08-21 |
| Two Buddhist vendors were gunned down on a road in Pattani province Friday. Mongkol Jaikla, 30, and his father, Watana Jaikla, 56, were ambushed by gunmen on a remote road at 12:10 p.m. The two were driving their trucks to sell mattresses and pillows in villages. It appears that they were lured to the spot where gunmen opened fire at them from a roadside. Police report that local people told the two to change direction and that when they made a U-turn and drove back by 500 meters, they were cut down in hail of M16 gunfire. They were also shot in their heads by a .38 revolver at point blank range. Another vendor gunned down, bomb left at scene A cosmetics company employee was gunned down in Narathiwat province and his killers are thought to have planted a powerful bomb in his pickup truck targeting police drawn to the scene of the attack. Seree Rakpan, an employee of the Betterway Company was found dead, his body riddled with bullets, behind the steering wheel of a company pickup shortly before noon on Thursday. The 38-year-old was delivering goods to customers in the village when four men hiding on the side of the road attacked him using M-16 rifles. Police recovered 25 spent M-16 cartridge shells at the scene. They also found a 20-kilogram homemade bomb in a cooking gas cylinder hidden among the cargo in the back of the truck. It was rigged to detonate remotely by a mobile phone signal. Police believed 20 surveillance cameras torched, grocery store bomb blast Twenty roadside surveillance cameras were set on fire in Pattani province yesterday. The cameras were torched along the Narathiwat-Pattani Road. A local police chief said separatist In Yala province, a bomb went off at a grocery store on Friday evening. No one was wounded. Police said the blast was caused by a 500g improvised bomb left in a refrigerator at the shop. |
| Posted by:ryuge |