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| Southeast Asia |
| One killed, several wounded in southern Thailand |
| 2014-02-21 |
| Two volunteer military rangers were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Narathiwat province yesterday, while a rubber tapper was gunned down and another wounded in Yala province. On Wednesday night, there was an attack on the home of a senior clerk at Yala's Bannang Sata district office, with seven M79 grenades fired, but no one was wounded. Less than an hour later, a resident was gunned down in a separate incident in the district. The bombing in Narathiwat occurred at about 8:30 a.m. and targeted a six-ranger patrol on three motorcycles. As volunteer military rangers Boonpen Leeka and Jaroonsak Pitakkij inspected a bridge, the hidden Earlier, unknown gunmen gunned down one local resident and wounded another in Yala's Raman district while the two victims rode a motorcycle to tap rubber trees. In Bannang Sata district, police yesterday morning inspected the house of a senior district clerk following the grenade attack. The attackers reportedly hurled two grenades at about 8:45 p.m. and then another five grenades at about 9:10 p.m. Police and defense volunteers fired back, causing the assailants to flee. A source involved with an investigation into the incident said police suspected an insurgent sympathiser group led by Mukta Ali-mama and Ahmad Leubaesa carried out the attack. In a separate incident, a villager was gunned down near a local mosque on Wednesday night in Bannang Sata district. |
| Posted by:ryuge |