Police officer shot dead in South

PATTANI: -- A police officer was shot dead and his police driver injured by motorcycle gunman while he was on his way back to Mayo district from Kapor district of Pattani last night.

The gun attack happened on the Saiburi-Kapor road near a market in Tambon Manang Dalam where he was visiting his wife in Kapor district.

On the return with his driver to Mayo, a motorcycle pulled alongside while his pickup truck slowed down as it was passing a busy market.

The pillion rider pulled out a pistol and opened fire at the two officers.

The officer, Pol Maj Ratanan Mapaew, a crime suppression officer at Mayo police station, was struck by several bullets on the head and body and died instantly on the seat.

His driver was also hit but managed to jump out of the truck and returned fire at the assailants.

He was immediately rushed to Pattani hospital where doctors said he had died upon arrival.

Police reinforcement were despatched to the scene this morning to collect evidence from CCTV cameras and believed southern militants in the area were responsible for the shooting.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/police-officer-shot-dead-in-south


-- Thai PBS 2016-01-13

The cowardly misguided strike again,

R.I.P Mr Mapaew.

What odd targets the southern insurgents pick. One day they kill a

local rubber tapper, next day a teacher, and then a policeman......

Just cannot see any rhyme or reason.

Edited January 13, 201610 yr by EyesWideOpen

What odd targets the southern insurgents pick. One day they kill a

local rubber tapper, next day a teacher, and then a policeman......

Just cannot see any rhyme or reason.

Infidels may be a common factor

What odd targets the southern insurgents pick. One day they kill a

local rubber tapper, next day a teacher, and then a policeman......

Just cannot see any rhyme or reason.

I've always wondered about that. No doubt the bomb attacks are genuinely insurgents, but it appears every murder in the south is unquestioningly blamed on insurgents. It seems very similar to the practice of calling many deaths suicides elsewhere in the country.

I thought everything was going good down there, but I guess not.

I would describe the driver as slightly more than "injured" if he's dead.

What odd targets the southern insurgents pick. One day they kill a

local rubber tapper, next day a teacher, and then a policeman......

Just cannot see any rhyme or reason.

I've always wondered about that. No doubt the bomb attacks are genuinely insurgents, but it appears every murder in the south is unquestioningly blamed on insurgents. It seems very similar to the practice of calling many deaths suicides elsewhere in the country.

According to my local coworkers in the area, even bombs going off in the south can be the result of ordinary business disputes.

But if you blame it all on insurgents, you don't have to do any, like, police investigation- that may end up with you being where it's not safe to look...

if the South would be given some kind of independence to govern themselves there would be peace! No fatal deaths anymore.

But losing face cost a lot more murdered Police and Army people.

What odd targets the southern insurgents pick. One day they kill a

local rubber tapper, next day a teacher, and then a policeman......

Just cannot see any rhyme or reason.

I've always wondered about that. No doubt the bomb attacks are genuinely insurgents, but it appears every murder in the south is unquestioningly blamed on insurgents. It seems very similar to the practice of calling many deaths suicides elsewhere in the country.

I read also sometimes it is drug and oil smuggling gangs, at least some of those targeting police/military or perhaps rivals/.

It appears from a distance...that BKK has tacitly approved the attacks on police, military, teachers, and elected officials in South Thailand...why else would these criminals still be operating there for over 10 years now?

The Thai Government should be worried that the "Dirty War" in the South does not move to Pattaya and Phuket.