Pregnant health official killed in Narathiwat gun attack

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Pregnant health official killed in Narathiwat gun attack
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- A two-month pregnant health official was killed and her colleague wounded in a gun attack yesterday afternoon in Narathiwat's Si Sakhon district.

When the two women arrived on a motorbike at a market in front of Si Sakhon Hospital at around 2pm, four suspects on two motorbikes approached them before one opened fire at the victims before fleeing.

Health official Jariya Phromnuan, 29, who was married to Si Sakhon precinct's Pol Sub-Lieutenant Jessada Panyachotikul, succumbed to a gunshot wound in the head at Si Sakhon hospital.

The other victim, 25-year-old health employee Pinyupa Wachirakijkosol, sustained a gunshot wound in right cheek and was later transferred to Pattani Hospital. Police believe insurgents might be behind the attack.

Separately, a police bomb squad defused a 20-kilogram bomb that was planted behind a roadside garbage bin in Narathiwat's Yi-ngo district at 1pm yesterday following a tip-off.

Police suspect the bomb, which was to be detonated by a communication radio, had been planted to hit a team of security officials who were meant to use the route.


-- The Nation 2014-04-30

[Thaiisnotrequired]

Unduly sad for the victim. Maybe being married to a policeman in such areas ain't too good a benefit, after all. Cowards, attacking 2 women!

[newcomer71]

RIP poor woman and poor yet-to-born baby... Life is crual and sad because human utter stupidity.

[The Deerhunter]

Cowardly bastards. RIP ladies. How could anyone do that,and even more horribly, possibly in the belief that they were within their God's will. I am sure they were targeted because one was known to be a police wife. This would not have been random. The score in the 3 southern provinces just goes up and up!!! How to stop this senseless round of murder??

[Loles]

I guess those Muslim nurses must to be very happy now who showed V fingers before, behind them the killed bomb-expert army officer.

2 souls with one shot, they must to be very proud of them shelf.

I hope they get their penalty which are deserved well.

AND need 4 (four) idiots to kill 1 (one) young lady and hurt 1 (one) young girl.

[davidmann]

people like should be hung up side down in the street ,like the romans did ,terrible world we live in

[ggt]

This violence had been going on for years...the Thais seem unable to make any progress towards ending the carnage...South Thailand is not a safe place...especially if you are a gov't official...teacher...nurse...Muslims seem to love to kill the innocents...

[wandasloan]

This violence had been going on for years...the Thais seem unable to make any progress towards ending the carnage...South Thailand is not a safe place...especially if you are a gov't official...teacher...nurse...Muslims seem to love to kill the innocents...

Yes you would never find Thai Buddhists doing that.

(What, never?)

Wel-l-l-l-l-l, hardly ever. Right?

I don't flinch from who started this mess, but "the Buddhists" are doing one of the worst jobs in recorded history at attempting to clean it up. They have killed hundreds and hundreds of innocent people, and brutally savaged others without any reason at all.

This week is the 10th anniversary of the Krue Se mosque massacre, by non-Muslims, for no reason. Acts like that help to assure that the circle of violence never is broken, and blaming Muslims for it is like blaming the drunk driver in the pickup who hit the drunk driver on a motorcycle on the wrong side of the road.

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