[Bangkok Post] A volunteer ranger was gunned down in an ambush at a roadside pavilion opposite a military outpost in Pattani province on Saturday morning. The attack occurred shortly after Phumsak Yenthua crossed Highway 42 in Panare district, opposite the ranger outpost where he worked, to the pavilion. As he was about to turn off the lights in the pavilion, assailants waiting in ambush in a nearby forest fired shots at him,
The sound of gunshots caused other rangers to rush to the scene, where they found Phumsak seriously injured. He was rushed to the hospital but died shortly later. Police found 25 spent M16 cartridges scattered at the scene of the attack and a bullet in the roadside forest, where the assailants had been hidden, about 50 meters from the pavilion.
Around the same time, a suspicious object was found in Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani. Bomb disposal officers were called in to examine the object, which turned out to be a bomb. It was destroyed.