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| One killed, four wounded in Thai roadside bomb attack |
| 2010-07-05 |
| A roadside bomb killed one and seriously wounded four paramilitary rangers while conducting a routine foot patrol in Yala's Banang Sata district Sunday afternoon amid a spike of violence in this southernmost province. The five men were from Ranger Unit 47 in the district. They were dispatched in what appeared to be an attempt to counter a spate of insurgency-related violence that erupted in Yala and surrounding districts following the June 7 shooting death of a local Islamic teacher, Dora-mae Da-che, 51, also known as Ustaz Mae, in Banang Sata. Mae was said to be connected to the local militant cell who retaliated with a series of bomb attacks on soft targets, including restaurants. His assassination was said to be a violation of a "gentlemen agreement" between the local cell and the military unit. According to informed sources, the agreement stipulated that there would be no target killing of suspected Yesterday roadside bomb attack in Banang Sata came just two days after similar back-to-back attacks on Friday and Saturday in Yala's Yaha district, and Narathiwat's Rusoh district, respectively. The two incident resulted in the death of eight people, six of whom were members of security forces. Last Monday, a soldier and two teachers were injured when a bomb, also buried under the road, exploded in Narathiwat's Si Sakhon district. Update: Yala bomb attack's death toll rises to two |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 The MSM ignores clashes between Islamic and government forces in Thailand becomes it undermines the preferred narrative that the Israeli-Arab conflict is the motivating factor in conflicts between Islam and the rest of the world. |
| Posted by: Odysseus 2010-07-05 08:15 |