FAR SOUTH
POST REPORTERS
Two policemen were killed and five others injured by a roadside bomb in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district on Wednesday. The explosion in tambon Paku killed Pol Lt-Col Narat Thepchalerm, the Thung Yang Daeng deputy superintendent, and Pol Sen Sgt-Maj Peerasak Sangsomboon as they were returning from a crime scene. One of the five injured officers was in critical condition.
Police said the home-made device was exploded by a detonation wire.
Pol Lt-Col Narat often took the lead in crackdowns on insurgent groups.
The blast was believed to be a revenge attack against the officer, who was believed to have carried out extra-judicial killings during operations.
In Yala, a military informant was shot dead along with his three-year-old son in a pre-dawn ambush while on his way to a rubber plantation in Bannang Sata district yesterday.
Kordey Doloh, 45, was shot five times in the torso and head while his son Anut was killed by stray bullets. His wife Maeya Wohlae, who survived the attack, said one attacker took away her husband's 9mm pistol.
Mrs Maeya said her husband earned a living as a rubber tapper and was also an informant for the Ingkayuthboriharn military camp in Pattani.
Also in Yala, provincial authorities and local security personnel yesterday provided a basic training programme for identifying suspicious-looking items to more than 200 people, from security volunteers to local residents.
Pol Maj-Gen Sayan Krasaesaen, the Yala provincial police chief, said the training was crucial because insurgents were now more sophisticated and could launch bomb attacks in various ways.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said yesterday the restructuring of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) would be completed by August.
The prime minister was speaking during a meeting with almost 470 of the military's top brass from across the country. Also at the meeting was Interior Minister Chalerm Yubamrung.
Modelled on the US Department of Homeland Security, the new Isoc would focus on 11 security issues, from drug problems to weapons smuggling, said a source, who added that the southern insurgency would remain the top priority
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