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| Imam shot dead, multiple bombings in southern Thailand |
| 2007-09-06 |
| This post overlaps with yesterday's. A Muslim religious leader was gunned down and five people were wounded in a bomb attack in the southern border provinces Wednesday. Imam Wae-asae Madeng, 68, was shot several times while he rode his motorcycle to sell fruit at market in Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district Wednesday morning. Imam Wae-asae died immediately at the scene. In Yala, a bomb blast wounded five people, including a 14-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy at a grocery in the Bannang Sata district. The victims were rushed to hospital but their condition was unknown. Three other bombs were detonated in Yala, but no one was wounded. The first exploded in a grocery opposite Yaha's municipality office, and the two other bombs were hidden under a pick-up truck and a car belonging to government officials in two separate locations in the municipality. Two of the bombs malfunctioned. Meanwhile, about 71 schools in four Pattani districts have temporarily closed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday to facilitate officials' operations to track and arrest Also: Thailand's Health Ministry on Wednesday warned officials working in the violence-plagued south to guard against theft of medical kits by Muslim insurgents. Dr. Prat Bunyawongwiroj, a senior ministry official, ordered security tightened at hospitals and public health clinics in the restive southern provinces after suspected Col. Shinnawat Maendaet, the military commander in charge of Yala, said it was probable that |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Probably put the cucumbers next to the tomatoes. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-09-06 08:59 |
| #1 Must have been a moderate imam if he had to work at the fruit market - I figure the radical ones get enough Saudi pay to not have to moonlight. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-09-06 07:28 |