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Southeast Asia |
Several wounded in terrorist attacks across southern Thailand |
2009-09-16 |
Three members of a teacher protection unit here were wounded in a clash with Seven soldiers guarding teachers in YalaÂ’s Raman district on Wednesday were caught in a bomb ambush and then fired upon, exchanging gunfire with a group of unidentified assailants. Three soldiers were wounded in the attacked, and all now under medical treatment at Yala hospital. Electric wire thought to be used to trigger the explosive device and several homemade bombs were found at the scene, according to the local special task force and bomb disposal unit. On the way to the scene, the security response team found spikes scattered on the road and a suspicious object which finally was identified as a decoy box containing only clay. Meanwhile, a village protection unit in YalaÂ’s Bannang Sata district was reportedly ambushed by In another incident, a bomb exploded in Narathiwat municipality, while eight special task police officers were on duty to help transport teachers. The bomb misfired, however, and no one was injured. Investigators found pieces of a 20-kilogramme homemade bomb built into a fire extinguisher. Detonated manually by remote control, by an electric wire placed in the roadside forest. In Pattani, a special task force exchanged fire with a |
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