Seven Injured In Southern Bomb Attack
BANGKOK, June 9 (Bernama) - Seven people, including three policemen and
two monks, were seriously injured in a bomb attack in Pattani Saturday.
The policemen were escorting the monks who were on their morning round collecting alms from the public when a homemade bomb exploded by the roadside at Jalan Jaroon, Samran, Pattani, at 6.30am.
Pattani police chief Col Sompong Misuk said the other two injured were members of the public who were giving food to the monks when the three-kilogramme bomb was detonated remotely by using a walkie-talkie.
He believed insurgents launched the attack in retaliation for the death of a village headman there on Tuesday which they (insurgents) claimed that the authorities were responsible.
More than 5,000 people have died since suspected separatists resumed their armed campaign to seek independence for the three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala eight years ago.
Source: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsgeneral.php?id=671829
The policemen were escorting the monks who were on their morning round collecting alms from the public when a homemade bomb exploded by the roadside at Jalan Jaroon, Samran, Pattani, at 6.30am.
Pattani police chief Col Sompong Misuk said the other two injured were members of the public who were giving food to the monks when the three-kilogramme bomb was detonated remotely by using a walkie-talkie.
He believed insurgents launched the attack in retaliation for the death of a village headman there on Tuesday which they (insurgents) claimed that the authorities were responsible.
More than 5,000 people have died since suspected separatists resumed their armed campaign to seek independence for the three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala eight years ago.
Source: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsgeneral.php?id=671829
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