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| Thai student 'shot by those who killed her dad' |
| 2014-11-07 |
| The gunman who gunned down a 20-year-old university student in southern Thailand on Sunday might have come from the same group that killed her father in 2006. Suthida Tangjai and three friends were traveling on two motorcycles when two men on a motorcycle approached and the pillion rider opened fire at them on Sunday in Narathiwat's Muang district. Suthida had been in a coma since she was shot in the back of the head. She was pronounced dead yesterday morning. A national security source said an examination found that the spent 9mm bullets did not match any from persons of interest in the area and that it was suspected the group that shot Suthida was from the same group that gunned down her father in 2006. Believing that she might have been targeted by insurgents, officers investigated a lead that some youngsters on a motorcycle had been seen circulating suspiciously near the victim's house area ever since her father was killed. Meanwhile, a bomb squad yesterday morning defused a 25kg home-made bomb, planted at the entrance to an administrative office in Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district. The bomb targeted security officers who regularly set up a mobile checkpoint in the area. |
| Posted by:ryuge |