Over 4,000 people attend bathing rite for monks killed in Narathiwat armed assault

Over 4,000 people attend bathing rite for monks killed in Narathiwat armed assault

Photo from Thai PBS ศูนย์ข่าวภาคใต้

About 4,000 villagers and Buddhist disciples, including more than 300 monks from several temples in the southern provinces and Malaysia, today attended the bathing rite for the two monks killed by gunmen who stormed Wat Rattananuparb in Narathiwat Friday night.

The bathing rites for Phra Khru Prachote Rattananurak, the abbot of Wat Rattananuparb, and another monk was co-chaired y Fourth Army Region commander Lt-Gen Pornsak Poonsawat and Phra Promjariyajarn, the chief monk of the southern region.

The bathing rite took about four hours due to the large number of people who had to queue up in long line to perform the ritual.

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Thai PBS: 2019-01-20