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Southeast Asia
Four Thai soldiers killed in school attack
2011-09-29
Four soldiers were killed while one more and a student were injured when they were attacked in front of a school in Narathiwat province yesterday.

Six soldiers were on security duty at the school in Narathiwat's Rueso district when they were ambushed at noon by terrorists militants armed with assault rifles.

A soldier who escaped unhurt said at least 18 terrorists assailants wearing paramilitary ranger uniforms opened fire on the soldiers as they were taking a short break outside the school. The terrorists assailants fled with five rifles and bullet-proof vests belonging to the soldiers.

Meanwhile, a Malaysian man who was wounded in the Sungai Kolok bombing on Sept 16 was pronounced dead yesterday morning, bringing the death toll to seven.

In Pattani province, a man was gunned down at a village market in Nong Chik district yesterday morning. Eyewitnesses said a mterrorist an shot Khampong Ngok-ngam, 45, twice in the head at a local market.

At about the same time, terrorists assailants set fire to 29 closed-circuit television cameras. Pattani provincial police chief Pichet said footage from surveillance cameras showed the terrorists assailants belonged to the same group as those who recently set fire to security cameras in Nong Chik district.

Meanwhile, a security source said Yase Pateh, a suspected key member of the Pattani United Liberation Organisation (PULO), is expected to surrender to authorities. Yase has arrived in the South from exile overseas. His whereabouts are unknown, but sources say that he is likely to bring 20 to 30 terrorists separatists with him when he turns himself in. The other terrorists separatist members in exile in Europe will arrive in Thailand later.

A source says the expected return of PULO members followed secret talks early this year between Phanu Uthairat, secretary-general of the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre, and Yase. He said Sapae-ing Basor, believed to be the leader of the Barisan Resolusi Nasional Coordinate, and Masae Useng, another suspected key member of the group, would also surrender.
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