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Southeast Asia
Two officials, one terrorist killed in southern Thailand
2010-05-18
The chief of the public works office of Tha Kam Sam tambon administration organisation in Nong Chik district of Pattani province was killed by gunmen on Tuesday. Pol Lt-Col Veerachart Khuhamuk, deputy chief of district police, said the attack took place about 11am while Jirapong Choti-akranit, 35, chief of the public works office of Tha Kam Sam TAO, was driving a pick-up truck to his office along Hat Yai-Pattani road. Three men followed him on a motorcycle and two opened fire at him with an M16 rifle and a 9mm pistol, killing him instantly.

And:

An education expert with a local administrative body has been shot dead in Yala in an attack believed to be aimed at stirring up violence on the first day of the new school year, police say.

The body of Sathian Sathianbut, 33, who worked with the Yala tambon administration organisation in Yaha district, was found lying yesterday morning on the Kota Bharu-Raman road. Police inquiries indicate Sathian was followed by two terrorists suspected insurgents on a motorcycle before one of them shot him. Police believe the attackers wanted to disrupt the return of teachers and students to classes across the lower South yesterday.

In Narathiwat, police and soldiers have stepped up their protection for teachers and students at 369 schools across the province. The officers are working with provincial officials and village defence volunteers to avoid any repeat of the attacks on teachers and schools that have taken place in recent years.

Village defence volunteers stood guard yesterday at schools as officers escorted teachers to and from school and facilitated the travel of parents and their children, especially in risk areas in Si Sakhon, Rueso, Cho Airong, Chanae and Rangae districts. Teachers are targeted by terrorists insurgents for the effect their death and injury has on other teachers. Schools are also forced to suspend classes when the teachers are unable to fill their posts. Security officers say up to 126 teachers have been killed or injured since the violence flared in the lower South in 2004, mostly in the Muslim-dominated provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat.

In Pattani, governor Theerathep Sriyaphan yesterday handed out about one million baht in aid to 33 people whose property was damaged during two bomb blasts near Pattani police station in Muang district on April 21. One police officer was killed in the attacks and more than 60 people were wounded. Homes and cars were also damaged in the blasts.

Also:

One terrorist separatist militant was killed in a clash with a joint military and police force, led by Col Komkrish Rattanachaya, commander of the No 41 Special Task Force Unit, on Tuesday morning, police said. The security force raided Kampong Lalae village, tambon Bajoh of Yala's Bannang Sata district, about 5.30am after receiving a tip that an terror insurgent supporter was hiding there. While the soldiers and police were surrounding the targeted village, a man with pistol in his hand ran out from a house and fired at them as he tried to flee. The security force fired back and the man was killed.

He was identified as Sulaiman Suwae, 30, of the village. He was wanted on several arrest warrants for involvement in inciting violence in the far South.
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