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| Three killed in separate attacks in southern Thailand |
| 2009-06-13 |
They said a 56-year-old Buddhist woman was killed and 13 others injured when a man riding pillion on a motorbike threw a hand grenade into a minibus carrying commuters to work in Yala province just before midday. The wounded were all taken to a nearby hospital. Just before midnight on Friday the 42-year-old wife of a village headman was shot dead in an ambush in neighbouring Narathiwat province as she drove a motorcycle with her 22-year-old daughter, police said. The daughter survived with gunshot wounds, they said. Three hours earlier, in Yala province, a 19-year-old Muslim man was shot dead at his house. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon and Army Commander Anupong Paojinda flew to the troubled region Saturday, to speed up an investigation into a last week's mosque shooting that left 11 dead. Mr Suthep was scheduled to visit the mosque in the Cho-Ai-Rong district of Narathiwat province where masked gunmen stormed in during evening prayers on Monday and sprayed worshippers with bullets, killing 11 and wounding 12. Anupong has said he hoped the inquiry would refute villagers' claims that the shooting was carried out by security forces. |
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