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| School bomb injures 17 in southern Thailand |
| 2007-06-04 |
| A bomb blast at a school in southern Thailand overnight wounded 17 young Muslim men, police said, while a teacher and a villager were shot dead in separate incidents. The men, all aged between 23 and 30, were waiting to play a game of football when the bomb went off beside a sports pitch at a school in Yala province, local police said, injuring 17 people, three seriously. And: 16 injured as terrorists derail train Separatist rebels derailed a train in Pattani province on Monday, police and railway officials said, injuring at least 16 people and forcing the suspension of some services. The commuter train left a station in Yala province in the morning when it jumped off the tracks near a station in Pattani province. Police blamed the incident on rebels who are fighting for a separate Muslim state in the southern region bordering Malaysia. They said that militants had sabotaged the track at night, removing nails that secured it. Railway officials said three passenger carriages carrying about 200 people left the track and slid into the verge, slightly injuring 20 people, while police put the number of wounded at 16. Rail services on the southern line between Pattani and Yala were suspended indefinitely, an official at the State Railway of Thailand said. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Were these 17 young Muslim men not Muslim enough or were the indiginous Thai Buddhists getting some back? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-04 11:24 |