SOUTHERN UNREST
MUHAMMAD AYUB PATHAN
A bomb squad inspects the scene of an explosion outside a 7-Eleven store in Yala's Muang district yesterday. The bomb was hidden under a drainage cover. It slightly injured two members of the community security team. |
Two members of a community security team escaped with minor injuries when a bomb failed to detonate properly outside a 7-Eleven store in Yala's Muang district yesterday.
Volunteer Niran Prapat, 32, was wounded in the left leg, and Doloh Sama-ae, 49, suffered ringing in the ears. They were part of the market community security team.
Eyewitnesses said the four-man team was standing in front of the store when a bomb hidden under a drainage lid went off.
As the bomb did not go off with full force, they escaped with minor injuries.
A bomb demolition squad was called in to defuse another two-kilogramme bomb also found in the area.
Mobile phone and wireless signals were jammed in the area and ordnance officers used a high-pressure water cannon to destroy the second bomb's electrical circuits before exploding it.
In nearby Raman district, 42 schools will reopen today and 13 others on Wednesday after they suspended classes on Thursday and Friday following the fatal shooting of Ban Mahae school principal Weera Muenchan on Wednesday.
Teachers and school administrators have held talks with soldiers, police and district officers on how they could be better protected, said Attasit Rattanakaew, Yala's zone 1 education director.
Weera was shot dead by a motorcycle pillion rider while on his way home.
Mr Attasit said teachers in 13 of the schools still feel insecure after militants exchanged gunfire with the authorities at the back of Ban Ba-ngoy school on Friday and three villagers were shot dead in a tea shop in the district on Saturday.
In Pattani's Nong Chik area, a technician at a rubber processing factory was shot dead by insurgents while driving his motorcycle home.
The victim was identified as Sa-ard Apiwatchanapanya, 41, from Kanchanaburi.
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