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Southeast Asia
Bombs wound five in southern Thailand
2009-06-04
Bomb blasts wounded five people and terrorists insurgents shot dead a man in Thailand's south, police said on Thursday, a day before the prime minister was to hold a security meeting on the region.

Police said two sisters who teach at an elementary school in Narathiwat province were seriously hurt early Thursday when terrorists suspected militants detonated a roadside bomb by mobile phone as the victims passed on a motorbike. Three police officers were wounded in a similar roadside bomb attack in neighbouring Yala province at about the same time, they said.

A Muslim man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province late Wednesday, police added.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he had called a meeting of top security officials for Friday and defended his government's handling of the situation in the south since he took power in December. He admitted that the government had been warned of possible attacks on teachers after the recent start of the new term. He rejected criticism that the government had been able to make little impact in the south despite the fact that it is a stronghold of Mr Abhisit's Democrat party.
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