Two blasts damage bridge, railway in Narathiwat

Two blasts damage bridge, railway in Narathiwat.

Narathiwat - Muslim insurgents launched two bomb attacks in this southern border province Monday morning, causing damages to a bridge and a section of railway tracks. No one was injured or killed in the two latest attacks.

The first attack was made against a bridge on the rural road in Ban Duku Village in Tambon Ban Thon in Bacho district.

The second attack was made at a railway in Ban Bothong Village in Tambon Tanyong in Rangae district at 9:30 am. Three border patrol policemen were injured because the blast occurred when they were chekcing the railway after alerted that a bomb might be planted there.

The latest bomb attacks followed a road-side blast in Pattani and a killing of tambon official in Pattani allegedly by Muslim insurgents Sunday night.

A soldier was fatally injured and five others severely harmed Sunday night when their patrol vehicle was hit by a bomb explosion detonated at 8:30 pm Sunday.

Police said the explosion occurred when the patrol vehicle was arriving at a spot on the road in Moo 5 Village in Tambon Karubi in Kapho district.

All the five soldiers in the vehicle were injured by the blast.

A helicopter was deployed to rush them to the Pattani Hospital but Private Kwanchai Inchana died on his way to the hospital.

Police said a member of a tambon administrative organisation was shot dead Sunday night in what believed to be a terror campaign by insurgents.

Police said Abdullohmae Yarnya, 31, was found dead near his motorcycle on a road in Moo 4 Village in Tambon Ratapan in Yaring district at 9 pm.

The Nation
Mon, January 15, 2007