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| Southeast Asia |
| Gun battle kills defense volunteer in southern Thailand |
| 2011-12-10 |
| A village defense volunteer was killed Friday during an exchange of gunfire with presumed Yayah Dama, a 28-year-old village defense volunteer, was pronounced dead en route to the hospital after being shot in a 10-minute gunfight with the attackers early Friday morning. The government personnel raided a nearby rubber plantation to seek the suspects. A village leader told police that residents alerted him after seeing three men armed with AK-47 assault rifles walking around the area. He coordinated with the deputy commander of Yala Special Task Force Unit 12, and local police to lead a combined force of 30 security officials to cordon off the rubber plantation and surrounding area. As the authorities searched the area early in the morning, the suspects ran from a house into the nearby rubber plantation. The suspected |
| Posted by:ryuge |