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| Senior police investigator gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2013-04-20 |
| A police investigator was gunned down while gathering intelligence in Pattani province yesterday in what officials believe was a premeditated attack. The shooting took place about 8 a.m. as Pol Maj Neramit Churoj was traveling alone in his car. Four men on two motorcycles approached his car and opened fire with a 9mm pistol and an M16 rifle. The policeman was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The slaying was preceded by an intelligence warning that senior police officers in Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani could be targeted by Meanwhile, in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district, police were alerted to a fatal shooting in front of a mosque in Ban Paseputae yesterday. When security officers arrived at the scene, they found the body of Rosa Tayae, a former village chief. He had been shot five times. An initial investigation revealed Rosa was walking to the mosque when two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire with a .357 handgun. In Yala province, gunmen opened fire on a military outpost in Ban Ranor about 6:50 p.m. on Thursday. Capt Annaj Ruantip, head of the the Yala No.15 special force, yesterday said an unknown number of gunmen in a rubber plantation across from the outpost sprayed bullets at the station while eight soldiers were on duty there. The gunfight lasted about ten minutes before the attackers fled the scene. Insurgent suspect Abe Jeh-alee and eight other armed men who have previously carried out attacks in Yala could have been behind the shooting, authorities said. |
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