Four terrorists suspects were arrested yesterday for an assault Tuesday night on a checkpoint in Narathiwat's Si Sakhon district, which left two volunteer rangers wounded. The four terrorists men - Abdulrohim Yusoh, Adulrohman Rona, Adema Taya and Saree Saemarae - reportedly have confessed their role in the attack.
Investigation found that the ten terrorists attackers were divided into two teams. One terrorist team was responsible for lobbing four grenades - one of which did not go off - while the other terrorist team fired assault rifles at the 14 officials manning the checkpoint. The 10 p.m. assault led to a 10-minute gun battle, and police yesterday collected some hundred spent bullets at the site.
After several shootings in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng and Muang districts, as well as a roadside-bomb attack on Tuesday that killed a soldier and left several others wounded, security teams searched houses in targeted areas yesterday. They arrested six suspected terrorist insurgent sympathisers, aged 18-20, in Thung Yang Daeng and another four suspected terrorist sympathisers, aged 25-35, in Muang. |