Suspected insurgents launched a focused assault on eight territorial defence volunteers in Narathiwat province in southernmost Thailand this morning. One volunteer was killed and two extra are injured.
At 8am, officers at Si Sakhon Police Station were informed that insurgents detonated a roadside bomb and fired shots with computerized rifles at Si Sakhon defence volunteers, killing one and injuring two, in Ai-yeng village.
Eight defence volunteers, riding four motorbikes, had been returning to their base early this morning having accomplished their routine mission providing security for lecturers at a college within the village after they have been ambushed.
An unknown number of insurgents hid around 300 metres away within the jungle and used a distant management to detonate a 25-kilogram explosive device which they had earlier hidden in a fuel pump.
After the bomb exploded the insurgents ran in and fired pictures with automated rifles at the group of volunteers.
Police discovered the physique of 32 12 months outdated Hamdee Makaze on the highway lying close to a broken motorbike. Police mentioned there were shrapnel wounds all over his body and he sustained two gunshot wounds in his head and the center of his again.
After killing Hamdee, the insurgents seized his gun and fled, said the injured volunteers.
Another volunteer, 38 yr previous Sgt. Gen. Manayee Samo sustained a shrapnel wound on his left hip and was shot in his left leg.
Another, forty nine year previous Suding Dorloh, survived a gunshot wound to the pinnacle and shrapnel wounds on his face.
Both of the injured males were taken to Sri Sakhon Hospital for remedy.
In Template , a police officer was killed and 20 extra were injured by a automobile bomb explosion at a police housing advanced in Narathiwat province in another suspected insurgency assault..