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| State employee gunned down in southern Thailand | |
| 2012-01-20 | |
| A state employee was gunned down on a local road in Pattani's Kapho district this afternoon. He was a state employee, identified as Vorasit Phuenpha. Eyewitnesses told police at around 1 p.m. the man was traveling on a motorcycle and was attacked by two men on another motorcyle and shot three times by the pillion rider with a pistol. At about 2:30 p.m., a bomb exploded at a parking lot for motorcycles in front of Pattana Islam School in Muang district of Pattani, damaging three motorcycles but causing no casualties. Mustopa Matrudin, a teacher at the school and the owner of one of the damaged motorcycles, told police that some people saw two young men arrive on a motorcycle, put an object under his vehicle's seat and take off before the bomb went off. Terrorists gun down widow of terror victim A widow was gunned down Friday while reading the Koran at a graveyard in Pattani province district where her husband's remains are buried. Jaesong Salae, 49, the widow of a school janitor who was gunned down earlier by presumed Police say that after Mrs Jaesong's husband was shot, she was hired by a local military unit and that she cooperated with the authorities. Her work may have dissatisfied the presumed insurgents, which led to her killing, investigators speculated.
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| Posted by:ryuge |