An M79 grenade explosion on Wednesday missed a local home apparently targeted in Ruso district of Narathiwat, damaging an electric power pole instead, but no casualties were reported. The grenade attack damaged an electric pole and trees and caused a small depression in front of the house, the bomb disposal unit reported, and remnants of an M79 grenade were found at the scene.
According to the initial investigation, while a squad of eight soldiers was patrolling near the targeted house, the only residence belonging to Thai Buddhists in that area, the terrorists suspected insurgents fired two shots of M79 at the target. Later on, both military and the terrorists suspected insurgents exchanged gunfire. No one was killed or injured in the incident.
In another attack in Narathiwat, a suspected terrorist group killed a village defence volunteer, identified as Veeranan Api, in Si Sakhon district by slashing his head. Severely wounded on the back of the head, the victim's body was placed under a bridge in the village. Local police presumed that it was the work of terrorists suspected insurgents who wanted to create unrest. |