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| AsiaViews, Edition: 48/VI/March2010 |
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| Southern bombings continue |
A roadside bomb explosion in Narathiwat’s Cho-Irong district left five soldiers with minor injuries on Wednesday morning, Pol Col Pokpong Thorkaew of Cho-Irong police station said.
The 15kg home-made bomb went off as a pickup truck carrying six soldiers passed by on the Sabuerang-Yaning road at Yaning village. The soldiers were heading for a meeting of local community leaders at the district office.
The wounded soldiers were taken to Cho-Irong Hospital and later returned to duty.
Another bomb went off in Yala’s Yaha district, Patae police said.
Private Veerawat Klanniam was seriously wounded by the explosion while he and eight other soldiers were patrolling along Bayaw-Patae road at Taloh village of tambon Patae in Yaha.
He was hit in the head and right leg by shrapnel and later admitted to Yala hospital.
Police blamed separatist militants for both attacks.
Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) Region 4 office spokesman Banphot Poolpian said the six bombs placed at banks in Narathiwat on Tuesday morning were aimed at destroying the banking and financial system in the far South.
“The bombers wanted to damage the economy of the three southernmost provinces,” Col Banphot said, adding that the Narathiwat attacks had nothing to do with the grenades thrown at branches of the Bangkok Bank in Bangkok on Saturday night.
Separatist militants also wanted revenge for the deaths of key members killed during recent clashes with state security forces, he said.
Since Feb 16, there had been 27 bomb attacks in the far South, an average of two bombs a day, injuring 48 people - 25 soldiers, three policemen and 20 civilians, he said.
Deputy Prime Minister overseeing security Suthep Thaugsuban said people should not try to link the discrediting of the GT200 explosives detector to the bombs planted in the violence-plagued lower South on Tuesday.
"I ask people to show sympathy for the field officers in the far South, since they are trying to maintain security in the country," he said. |
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| BangkokPost.com, 03 March 2010 |
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