Police officer killed in ‘retaliatory’ bomb blast

[snoop1130]

Police officer killed in ‘retaliatory’ bomb blast

By Nakarin Chinworakomon, 
Narong Nuansakul 
The Nation

 

 

One police officer was killed and other was wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Bannang Sata district in Yala on Tuesday morning that the authorities believe was conducted in retaliation for the arrest on Monday of suspected insurgent Subree Jehwae.

 

Following an incident report at 8.45am, Bannang Sata Police officers, bomb squad members and rangers went to inspect the scene on Tabing Teengee-Sai Kaew road in Tambon Taling Chan.

 

The body of Pol Sgt-Major Thossaporn Sethsarn and the wounded Pol Lance Corporal Thiammek Thongchat had already been taken to Bannang Sata Hopsital when they arrived.

 

Officers found the Bannang Sata precinct’s pick-up truck at the scene with a blown-up motorcycle lying nearby. Fragments of a five-kilogram metal box bomb were scattered around the scene.

 

An initial probe found that Thossaporn and Thiammek were riding on the motorcycle leading eight other teacher-protection team members who were on the truck and another tailing motorcycle. The bomb, which was hidden behind a traffic sign, went off as they passed it.

 

 Colonel Pramote Phrom-in, spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command Region 4’s Front Command, said Fourth Army Region chief Lt-Gen Piyawat Narkvanich offered condolences to the slain officer’s family and had instructed army officers to work with police to find the culprits.

 

In a related development, a bomb went off in Narathiwat’s Sungai Padi district on Monday night, but nobody was injured.

 

 Authorities said it was an attempt to kill soldiers who guard the site of ongoing road repairs each morning. However, it appeared that rain had triggered a short-circuit and the bomb went off prematurely, said Sungai Padi precinct superintendent Pol Colonel Pakdee Preechachon.

 

Pakdee led a group of officers who inspected the bomb scene at a road running parallel to the railway. They found a 50-centimetre-deep and 1-metre-wide crater caused by the explosion, which occurred at about 8.30pm.

 

Fragments suggest that a bomb had been placed in a cooking cylinder. The explosion also cracked a cement pillar on the barbed-wire fence of a nearby plantation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30332167

 

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[observer90210]

It would really be time to appease the situation down there by any means that are deemed fit....

 

...if the situation is left to deteriorate, neither side will benefit or win.....it can spread nationwide, who knows ?....tourism and economy will suffer heavily.

 

RIP to the officer and his family.

Edited November 21, 2017 by observer90210

[RichardColeman]

These <deleted> people murdered my wife's cousin in a bomb last week. Hope the Thai army find and kill them all. There is no peace with these murderous people. Thai army should take a leaf out of Lawrence of arabia !

[Srikcir]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thossaporn and Thiammek were riding on the motorcycle leading eight other teacher-protection team members who were on the truck and another tailing motorcycle

Motorcycle's don't fare well with IED's.

The government vis a vis the military apparently is satisfied with a low-level of insurgent-caused fatalities as a consequence for not making serious efforts at peace talks and outsourcing security responsibilities to volunteers and officials at the village level. 

[UnkleMoooose]

This is awful, they'll have to replace that cement pillar.

[johnarth]

old Aussie saying fits this situation, " don't rock the boat"

[Stargeezr]

The south may have its Muslim problem,  but these acts are terrorist in nature, and when the

people who are doing this are caught they should be charged as terrorists then lined up

and shot.

Geeezer

[Srikcir]

1 hour ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

The south may have its Muslim problem

LOL

With over 90% of the population being Muslim, I don't think the people there view having a "Muslim problem." It's that the south has a nationalistic Buddhist government problem through decades of forced integration through a process of ‘Thaification’ which resulted in repression of the local Jawi language and culture.

https://swarajyamag.com/world/buddhism-versus-islam-clash-of-civilisations-in-south-and-south-east-asia

If the four provinces were to magically merge with the Malaysian Federation, the southern Muslim insurgency would cease to exist.

[Stargeezr]

Well Srikcir, If you live in Jolly ol Thailand, you should take your suggestion to the PM and government.

It seems that they are not aware of that solution. The fact that the south is still part of the country

of Thailand is something that all Thais are aware of. There are even old Buddhist temples in

Pattani and Yala, I have been there to see them both,  and the population in each place were

very fluent in the Thai language. They were also happy to take my tourist money to see the sights

in the area, and at the markets at Hat Yai.

Geezer

[Srikcir]

36 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

you should take your suggestion to the PM and government.

Taking your comments seriously and not as satire -

Conceding Thai sovereignty over the south is completely unacceptable to the military, even for limited semi-autonomy. The military is well aware of such solutions but has actively opposed the Yingluck's administration's efforts to negotiate semi-autonomy of the South.

39 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

There are even old Buddhist temples in

Pattani and Yala

That's nice. If there were old Muslim structures in the rest of Thailand, would that justify Muslim occupation and domination?

41 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

the population in each place were

very fluent in the Thai language.

Thai was forced to be the official language in the South. Did you meet Muslims who didn't speak their own ethnic dialect?

 

43 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

They were also happy to take my tourist money to see the sights

in the area

I would be happy to take your money. Does that make me Thai or whatever?

 

45 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

If you live in Jolly ol Thailand

From a sarcastic viewpoint I might agree. It might be more creative to call this place Jolly ol Juntaland.

You're been a great foil. Thank you for your replies.