Three shot dead in gun attack in Pattani; reporters hurt in Narathiwat bomb blast

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Three shot dead in gun attack in Pattani; reporters hurt in Narathiwat bomb blast
The Nation


Members of a bomb disposal squad detonate a bomb yesterday that was planted to ambush officials checking on a Monday-night blast in Narathiwat

BANGKOK: -- Three men were slain in a gun attack in Pattani's Yarang district just after midnight yesterday, while a bomb in Yi Ngor in Narathiwat injured four journalists, including two Nation reporters.

Three men were driving towards Yarang in a sedan in tambon Mohmawi when a group of gunmen on a pick-up and motorcycles opened fire at them at 12.30am. After the sedan plunged into a roadside ditch, the gunmen went over to drag one out across the road and fatally shot him, while other gunmen shot other two men dead in the car, police said.

The victims were former tambon Rawaeng administrative organisation employee Yawari Paseroh, 37, former volunteer ranger Masorbri Kalong, 41, and local man Ahamad-dari Palikhet, 37.

The assailants also stole the victims' Aka-47 rifle and two pistols, before fleeing. Police at 9am collected almost 100 spent bullets from Aka-47, M16s and 9mm guns from the scene.

Police were unsure if it was an attack by insurgents or an illegal business conflict, because Ahamad-dari was arrested by Yarang police for allegedly possessing a narcotic substance last year.

In Narathiwat's Yi Ngor district, police were inspecting the scene of an explosion on Monday night on Phetchakasem Highway in tambon Taporyor when another explosion occurred. This second bomb slightly injured four journalists - Nation reporters Santhiti Khorjitmet and Patidta Noosanthad, Siam Rath newspaper report assistant Muranee and Thai PBS reporter Salika Wongwai. The blast also shattered the windscreen of a police pick-up and damaged reporter Waedaoh Harai's car. Santhiti, Patidta and Muranee, who had sustained leg and spine injuries from a blast in October, were sent for a check-up at a hospital.

The journalists said their morale was still strong and they would go back to news-reporting after they recover from their injuries.

On Monday, a defence volunteer Noonman Doloh, 35, was shot at by unknown gunman in hiding, while Noonman rode a motorcycle home before midnight in Ma Yor in Pattani, but the bullets missed as he sped away. Police suspect this stemmed from a personal conflict or was part of ongoing unrest.


-- The Nation 2014-02-19

[Tatsujin]

The assailants also stole the victims' Aka-47 rifle and two pistols, before fleeing. Police at 9am collected almost 100 spent bullets from Aka-47, M16s and 9mm guns from the scene.

Shocking the worth of human life here now.

[Why ask]

Don't you get gloves with modern bomb-proof attire?

[Fat Haggis]

Who carries an AK47 and 2 pistols and are innocent

[OMGImInPattaya]

No justice, no peace!

Remember Somchai Neejapajit.

[BlueNoseCodger]

### What has happened to the land of smiles??? ###

Random Shootings, Murders, Bomb blasts, images of dead and maimed people!! Is this sort of thing going to be allowed to continue??

Is this part of the very out of control protests?? that need to be stopped,

Thailand- WAKE UP!! THE WORLD IS WATCHING, LISTENING AND WAITING!

the Police and or Army should should show some BALLS!! and do SOMETHING NOW!! before the country becomes another Beirut,

The world is laughing at a country run by mindless corrupt and greedy politicians who need to be thrown out!!

If the Americans can find and take out Bin Laden, what is wrong with the Thai Army?? Find that Psycho pathetic out of control wannabe dictator Renegade "supethetic " and Taksins puppet Yingluck put them together in gaol, they are both nut jobs, both thieving corrupt liars and should be disposed of immediately before the country is totally ruined by civil war which WILL happen!!

The army took power in 2006, put a General from the South in charge of the whole country and it didn't work. He couldn't bring peace to the south.

General Prayuth just cancelled a trip to the south, if anything the protest in BKK, means the southern bombers have less troops to worry about and are having a field day. Prayuth draws troops to protect polling stations from protestors, but those troops then aren't in the south!

I don't think the solution is the removal of the elected government, because then you'll just vastly increase the number of protestors, and draw more troops from the south to hold power for the minority.

IMHO, the solution is Suthep to end his the protests, get back to democracy, get the army back south, and a very long and slow integration of language using television. Since the language barrier (Malay vs Thai) is what lets the terrorists keep a barrier between people that enables their terrorism.

Edited February 19, 2014 by BlueNoseCodger