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| Militants shoot five, killing two in Thai south |
| 2007-03-06 |
| Islamic militants shot dead five people in Thailand's Muslim-majority south. A 21-year-old Buddhist government security guard was gunned down in a public phone booth late Monday in Yala. Also in Yala, two Muslim men, aged 20 and 24, were shot dead in a drive-by shooting late Monday. Militants also shot dead two male Buddhist villagers, aged 52 and 31, who were working in a paddy in neighboring Pattani province. more detail on the drive-by here: Southern insurgents fired into a group of young people emerging from a stadium and killed two youths in the drive-by shooting on Monday night. Police said the killings occurred along the main Yala-Betong road of Yala province, and instantly killed the two young men. Police Superintendent Pol Col Songkiet Watakul said police responding to a call for help found a motorcycle on its side and the two bodies of youths later identified as Rosadee Mahama and Abdulloh Latte, who lived in the area. Officers rushed a third victim Susee Salamae to Yala Central Hospital, where he was declared in critical condition. Detectives said the teenagers were leaving an Ayurweng village sports stadium on the main road, when a pickup truck drove alongside and four to five gunmen opened up on them. |
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