Officials defuse powerful car bomb in Yala

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Officials defuse a powerful car bomb in front of a car dealer's showroom



YALA: -- Officials of the explosives ordnance disposal unit safely defused a powerful car bomb in front of a car dealer’s showroom in Yala province yesterday morning.

The suspected car bomb, a grey Toyota Hilux pickup truck, with license plate number Bor Tor 1845, was found parked in front of Pitharn Panich’s car dealer’s showroom in Muang district of Yala.

Security officials were alerted of the suspected truck by some residents. A quick check of the record of stolen cars showed that the vehicle in question bore the same license plate with the one stolen from Kuelong cooperatives in Banang Sata district on April 4.

An EOD unit was rushed to the scene with jammers to disrupt radio signals which might be used by insurgents to detonate the car bomb. The EOD spent about two hours before they managed to remove two 50-litre gas tanks filled with explosive devices from the pickup truck.

Meanwhile in Ra-ngae district of Narathiwat, police from the forensic science examined a broken roadside power pole in Ban Muhubareh.

Police suspected that insurgents blew up a bomb planted at the foot of the power pole with an intention to harm a paramilitary unit travelling in two pickup trucks from Ra-ngae district office to their base camp.

The two trucks sustained slight damages but none of the rangers were wounded.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/158331


-- Thai PBS 2016-04-06

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Wife Held Hostage, Man Forced to Drive Bombs Into Town
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter


Members of a police bomb unit carry heavy tanks after they were disarmed Tuesday in Yala city.

YALA — Sunan Thongnet was driving back home after shopping in the morning market with his wife Renu Jitban early this morning in Yala’s Bannang Sata district when they were stopped by a group of uniformed men they thought were authorities.

The men, numbering seven or eight, put bags over their heads and separated the couple. Their abductors’ horrible intent soon became clear when they loaded their truck with two tanks of explosive gas weighing upward of 200 kilograms.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1459853677&typecate=06&section=

-- Khaosod English 2016-04-06

[ezzra]

Amazing and good news to see that the bomb squad didn't blew themselves in the process

of diffusing the devise as it usually happened....

[outsider]

Credit where it is due. Great work and an even greater save, else more lives would be unecessarily lost.