A security volunteer picking up her two-year-old daughter from day care was among four people shot dead in separate attacks in southern Thailand, police reported on Friday. The gunmen killed the 37-year-old Buddhist woman in front of her child in Pattani province on Thursday afternoon.Two Muslim men, aged 24 and 41, were killed in two separate drive-by shootings in the same province that day.
Another gun attack in Yala province on Thursday left a 35-year-old security volunteer dead at his home.
Five security volunteers wounded in Thai south blast
Five security volunteers in Yala province were wounded when an IED blew up early Thursday morning.
Police said the 3-5-kilogram IED was hung on an electrical post and when five security volunteers patrolling aboard a pick-up truck passed by, the attackers detonated the bomb. The electric post and vehicle were completely damaged.
Police officers blamed
Monk, three soldiers injured in Pattani bombing
A bomb explosion injured one monk and the three soldiers escorting him during his morning alms rounds on Friday in Pattani.
The remote-controlled explosive device, weighing around seven kilograms, was hidden in an iron box and placed at a base of an electricity power pole. It was triggered by radio signal and blew up, injuring a monk from Lakmuang temple.
Pvt Kritsada Buaban recieved severe shrapnel wounds in his stomach and two others were injured and remain in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban told reporters Friday that he has assigned security personnel in southern Thailand to tighten security on the eve of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference meeting as