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Southeast Asia
Thai soldier gunned down in ambush
2011-05-25
A soldier in a unit providing security for teachers was killed in an ambush in Yala province on Wednesday morning.

The attack occurred about 7:30 a.m. while a military task force unit was patrolling a local road before vehicles carrying teachers arrived at school. Terrorists Gunmen attacked the patrol with M16 and AK47 rifles. The soldiers returned fire. The gunfight lasted 15 minutes before the attackers fled.

Pvt Chuchart Keawwonghin, 22, took two bullets to the head and body, and died at the scene. Pol Col Chalong believes the attack was by terrorists militants out for revenge after four jihadis separatists, including a senior leader, were killed by a joint police and military action in Yala the other day.

Four soldiers wounded in Yala
Four soldiers of the Yala military task force unit 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a bombing and an ambush in Yala province late Wednesday morning.

The four soldiers were in a Humvee to support their colleagues surrounding a targeted village after being ambushed earlier this morning when suspected terrorists militants detonated a home-made bomb planted under the road's surface. After that the terrorist militant fired at the soldier who fired back. The shootout lasted for ten minutes before the attackers fled.

Villager gunned down in Yala
A villager was gunned down in Yala province on Tuesday night.

Muhammad Kusai Sapator, 25, was smoking a cigarette in front of his home when two terrorists gunmen came up to him. Each of them shot at him with a shotgun, hitting him in the head and body, then ran away fled. The victim died at the scene.
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