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| Southeast Asia |
| Bomb kills monk, soldier in southern Thailand |
| 2015-07-26 |
| [Bangkok Post] A Buddhist monk and a Thai soldier were killed and six others were wounded when a bomb hidden in a garbage bin went off in Pattani province early Saturday. Police were alerted about the bombing on the road to the Sai Buri district police station in Taluban municipality. The responding policemen found eight people wounded at the scene. Three of them were members of an army team assigned to protect Buddhist monks. Two of them were monks and the remaining three were local residents. The soldiers were on duty guarding the monks while they took morning alms when a bomb hidden in a garbage bin exploded. The army on Saturday condemned the bombing, calling the militants responsible "extremists" who wanted to derail efforts to restore peace in the region. Internal Security Operations Command spokesman Banpote Poonpien said the militants were a minority group trying to block "peace momentum" in the far South. They had targeted the monks to create a religious divide in the area, he said. |
| Posted by:ryuge |