 | The cycle of violence, pillion style: |
A deputy village chief was shot dead in Thailand's insurgent deep south on Friday. The 58-year-old Nual Dindaeng was shot twice in the head as he and his wife traveled in their pickup truck to a market in the southern province of Narathiwat, Bangkok Post on Saturday quoted a local police officer as saying. The killing was conducted by two gunmen on a motorcycle, who overtook Nual's truck and the pillion rider opened fire with a .38 pistol. Pattani province along with Narathiwat and Yala provinces is battling near-daily attacks that authorities and analysts have blamed on a mix of Islamic separatists, organised criminals and narcotraffickers. "I am confident that he was shot as part of the unrest because the militants have followed him and tried to kill him in the past, and his son is a police officer in Bacho police station," Major Rattanapakdi said. |