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| Local official gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2013-03-19 |
| A tambon administration organisation member was gunned down in an attack in Narathiwat province on Sunday morning. The attack occurred at about 10 a.m. According to witnesses, while the victim was returning in a car from a market in Si Sakhon district to his home in tambon Tamayung he was followed by a pickup truck. A number of men in the back of the pickup opened fire at his car with AK47 rifles. The victim was hit in the head and body. His vehicle skidded off the road and slammed into a power pole. One of the attackers walked up to his car and fired another shot into his head to make sure he was dead, then took his 9mm pistol and fled in the waiting pickup. |
| Posted by:ryuge |