[Bangkok Post] Five people were wounded after militants sprayed bullets at a grocery store in Pattani province on Sunday. Police were informed of the shooting in Khok Pho district in the afternoon. Upon arrival they found a pool of blood at a table in front of the grocery. Ten spent AK-47 bullet cartridges were found a the road three meters away. Police said ten people were watching a Muay Thai boxing match on television when four men arrived on two motorcycles, and the pillion passengers armed with AK-47 opened fire at them, before fleeing. The assailants later attacked a group of teenagers who were sitting at a roadside pavilion a kilometer from the grocery store, but no one was injured.
One of the five wounded was a policeman who sustained serious gunshot wounds to the abdomen. The other four men, all civilians, were shot in the leg.
Pattani police chief Tanongsak Wangsupa said after the twin attacks security officers had cast a net to trap the assailants. It is believed the attacks were in retaliation over Thai security forces killing four members of an armed unit of the RKK separatist movement on Wednesday when they raided their temporary camp in mountainous Chanae district of Narathiwat.