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| Five soldiers wounded in bombing in southern Thailand |
| 2011-04-28 |
| Five soldiers were wounded, and nine policemen were lucky to escape unharmed in two bomb blasts in Narathiwat province yesterday. The soldiers were on a pickup truck heading from their outpost in Ban Dorhong in the morning when suspected Meanwhile, nine policemen narrowly escaped a bomb blast near a bridge. They were passing on a pick-up truck and motorcycles when the bomb blew up in Chanae district at 10:30 a.m. yesterday. They were setting up a checkpoint. The bomb, about the same size as the bomb involved in the other explosion, was placed in a steel box in a garbage pile next to the bridge and was detonated by cellphone. Meanwhile, authorities in southern Thailand are stepping up security for the seventh anniversary of the Krue Se mosque killings today. Pattani governor Niphon Narapithakkul, who survived a roadside bombing in his province on Tuesday, said the attack has not intimidated him. He will continue doing his job as normal until his retirement in six months. The chief of the Panare police station in Pattani said a gang of about six Village leader ambushed in Narathiwat A village leader was seriously wounded in an ambush at his rubber plantation in Narathiwat province Thursday morning. Koryee Sama-air, 48, was tapping latex behind his home when two gunmen fired M16 and AK47 rifles at him. Koryee was hit three times and was taken to Rangae hospital. His condition was diagnosed as critical he was later transferred to antother hospital. Police blamed separatist |
| Posted by:ryuge |