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| Bomb kills senior government official in southern Thailand |
| 2013-04-05 |
| A roadside bomb has killed a deputy provincial governor and another state official in southern Thailand on Friday, a week after the government held first formal talks with a Isra Thongthawat, deputy governor of Yala province, was traveling in a car with Chavalit Chairuek, a provincial disaster management official and his driver, when the bomb went off. Chavalit died at the scene. Isra died later in hospital, becoming the most senior civilian official to be killed in the south since the Muslim insurgency resurfaced in 2004. Paradorn Pattanathabutr, secretary-general of Thai National Security Council, said, "We're expecting these kind of protest attacks but what happened does not indicate a failure in the talks with the BRN." |
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