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| Blast in Thailands Pattani injures monk, soldiers |
| 2011-01-30 |
| [Straits Times] A BOMB attack in Pattani on Friday maimed a monk and three soliders escorting him during morning alms. The homemade bomb, made of sevenkilo explosives contained in a cooking gas cylinder, was laid near a power pole and covered by a plastic bucket located along a regular route of morning alms by Buddhist monks in Muang Pattani municipality. The maimed monk resides at Wat Lak Mueng. Footage from security cameras later caught the planting of the bomb by gunnies in progress. Local authorities said gunnies had been damaging security cameras at many locations while repair or installation works were being carried out to make them work again. Deputy provincial governor Lertkiat Wongphothiphan said temple chiefs had been asked to instruct monks to change their routes or stop going in paths where the risk were high. 'For example. There are only a few homes who give alms to monks on the road where the attack took place,' he added. The military in the deep south is calling on civilian authorities and owners of private premises to keep their existing security cameras repaired or operational 24 hours a day, saying that the footage would be a key to arresting the attackers or culprits involved in the security crimes. Police on Friday found the body of a man discarded off a main road in Yala's Muang district. The naked body was macheted in the face and hit in the head. The track found at the scene suggests that the victim was killed elsewhere and dragged to the scene, police said, without ruling that the murder was related to beturbanned goon operations. |
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