An assistant village leader was killed in an ambush in Narathiwat province on Friday morning. Witnesses told police that Suema-nga Yusoh, 47, assistance village chief in Rangae district was driving home in his car when terrorists gunmen hiding in the rubber forest along the road sprayed bullets from AK47 and M16 assault rifles at him. The victim was hit several times and died at the spot.
Police blamed separatist terrorists militants.
Five terrorists arrested in attack on police station
Police have arrested five terrorists men suspected of being involved in an attack on a Yala police station on Wednesday night. The five terrorists, wanted under the emergency decree, were rounded up in a pre-dawn raid yesterday. The terrorists suspects were named as Muhammat Waekachi, 19, Chummanan Singthong, 19, Abdunmuttolo Masae, 21, Saiwan Sengso, 22, and Ahamat Samo, 26.
During the attack on Wednesday a grenade was fired into the police compound, damaging one building. No one was hurt in the attack.
Meanwhile, Karin Ma, a 54-year-old villager, died from his injuries yesterday after he and three other villagers were hit by stray bullets during an terrorist insurgent attack on a military checkpoint, also on Wednesday. No soldiers were hurt in the incident. Muammatnu Ma, 17, was also seriously injured and is being treated at the hospital. The two other villagers wounded, Maesong Matimo and Mae Hakuechi, are in a stable condition.
As many as 23 villagers and police were injured in a spate of evening terrorist shooting, grenade and bomb attacks in Yala and Pattani provinces on Wednesday. Pol Lt Gen Paithoon Chuchaiya, chief of the Police Operation Center for the Southern Border Provinces, said yesterday he had called a meeting with Yala and Pattani police to look into the attacks.
Pol Lt Gen Paithoon noted that terrorists insurgents are intensifying their operations during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. He said he has deployed more police to provide added security for people in the southernmost border provinces during this period. |