2 killed, 6 hurt in Thai south
Monday, June 4, 2007
A MUSLIM teacher has been killed in southern Thailand, police said yesterday, sparking a stand-off with security forces who later shot dead a villager.
Suspected separatist militants attacked a convoy of police in Narathiwat province late last Saturday, local authorities said, detonating a bomb which slightly wounded two policemen.
An hour later at a nearby mosque, a 23-year-old female religious teacher was shot dead, sparking an impromptu protest by about 60 villagers who said the military killed the woman.
About 80 police and soldiers travelled to the scene and clashed with the villagers, with one protester shot dead when he allegedly tried to throw a grenade at the security forces, a local police officer said.
Also in Narathiwat yesterday, a roadside bomb wounded four soldiers who were on patrol.
Security forces are on high-alert after 12 soldiers were killed last Thursday in Yala province, the worst attack against the military in the Muslim-majority Thai south since 2004.
More than 2,200 people have been killed in a separatist insurgency that has been raging in the southern region bordering Malaysia since January 2004.
Violence is growing despite peace-building moves by the military-installed government, which came to power after a coup in September 2006.
AFP
Suspected separatist militants attacked a convoy of police in Narathiwat province late last Saturday, local authorities said, detonating a bomb which slightly wounded two policemen.
An hour later at a nearby mosque, a 23-year-old female religious teacher was shot dead, sparking an impromptu protest by about 60 villagers who said the military killed the woman.
About 80 police and soldiers travelled to the scene and clashed with the villagers, with one protester shot dead when he allegedly tried to throw a grenade at the security forces, a local police officer said.
Also in Narathiwat yesterday, a roadside bomb wounded four soldiers who were on patrol.
Security forces are on high-alert after 12 soldiers were killed last Thursday in Yala province, the worst attack against the military in the Muslim-majority Thai south since 2004.
More than 2,200 people have been killed in a separatist insurgency that has been raging in the southern region bordering Malaysia since January 2004.
Violence is growing despite peace-building moves by the military-installed government, which came to power after a coup in September 2006.
AFP
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