 As Thai military nab terror leader
One terrorist suspected insurgent was killed, while another armed jihadi militant and an official were wounded during raids and attacks overnight and Saturday morning in the southern provinces.
One terrorist presumed insurgent was shot dead during a clash with combined police and army personnel in Yala's Krongpinang district as a 20-man government team raided a village believed to be an insurgent hide-out. Five gunmen opened fire at the government unit. One gunman was killed, while the others fled. Police detained four young men for questioning.
Elsewhere, an army unit raided a village in Songkhla's Sabayoi district and detained an terrorist insurgent leader thought to be involved in the killing and beheading of a police officer and shooting an assistant governor. The 200-man military force arrested Nilo Asae and five accomplices in the raid on Saturday. Mr. Nilo has a bounty on his head for Bt 500,000. The soldiers also seized three weapons, ammunition, explosive devices, documents about plotting attacks, camouflage uniforms, cell phones, and marijuana. The detainees will be sent to a military camp in Pattani for further investigation.
Earlier in Narathiwat, four gunmen attacked a temporary military base at a school in Rueso district. Second Lt. Sarawut Timharn was shot in the leg and sent to hospital. The gunmen retreated after five-minute exchange of gunfire with the military.
An estimated nine gunmen attacked Rueso Hospital in Narathiwat's Rueso district around midnight Friday, shooting into the hospital buildings. Both police and military responded, surrounding the hospital and exchanged gunfire with the gunmen for about ten minutes. Police arrested Isma-ae Jemu, an assailant who was wounded, and two others, who denied being involved in the shooting. They said they were innocent bystanders who were caught in the crossfire between the assailants and the depending police and military personnel. An investigation is continuing.
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A soldier was wounded Saturday after terrorists insurgents fired more than 10 rounds of ammunition into a school in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat where a polling station for the public referendum on the draft constitution was set up. The incident took place in Ruso district when two unidentified terrorists travelling in a motorcycle and armed with war weapons fired into the school, wounding the soldier. Soldiers manning the temporary outpost at the school returned the fire but missed the targets. |