A five-year-old girl was killed and 23 people were wounded in a grenade attack by suspected Islamic Two men on a motorbike hurled the grenade at an army truck near Yala central mosque as people gathered for an evening market, but missed the target, killing the girl and leaving two of the injured in critical condition.
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Maj Somkid Kongkheng, Deputy Commissioner of the Yala police special unit 11 on Wednesday led soldiers to meet people near the attack site following a rumour that Tuesday's bombing was the work of government officials. After explaining to local residents, he said that most of them understood the situation.
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A married couple have been shot and seriously wounded and a female vendor stabbed in separate attacks in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district.
The couple were ambushed yesterday morning as they were on their way to tap rubber in a plantation at Ban Saraphi. Anan Salae, 39, was shot in the head and critically injured while his wife Sunisa Pudpor, 41, received a serious gunshot wound to her right leg.
Vendor Jaruwan Sarit, 32, was attacked while she was riding her motorcycle to sell yoghurt in Ban Paseputeh. Two men on a motorcycle followed her before the pillion rider stabbed her in the neck with a knife.
In Yala, local authorities plan to train villagers' dogs to sniff out explosives following a recent booby-trap bomb attack in Than To district which left two rubber tappers seriously wounded. Than To district chief Surachai Wongsupaluck said local officials told him that dogs raised by local residents could be trained to detect explosives.
The Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre yesterday called a meeting of Islamic religious leaders in 13 districts of Narathiwat. Kitti Surakhamhaeng, director of the centre's justice administration office, called the meeting with 77 Islamic leaders at a hotel in Narathiwat.
The meeting pointed to the May 19 dispersal of anti-government red shirt protesters as a lesson illustrating the repercussions of the lack of mediation between the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship and the government.