SOUTHERN VIOLENCE
POST REPORTERS
Forensic investigators search for evidence in a damaged pick-up truck driven by Somnuek Tanomklai, 47, who was shot dead by a motorcycle pillion rider on his way to pick up students in Pattani's Sai Buri district yesterday. |
Two privates were injured in a bomb blast while on foot patrol in Muang district of Yala yesterday.
The explosion occurred on Yala-Ban Yupo road when a five-strong unit made its rounds before a convoy of teachers was due to pass, local police said.
The wounded were Pvt Sajja Chukaew, 23, and Pvt Masorei Bula, 21.
Police said a 5kg home-made bomb buried underground was set off by remote control.
In Pattani, Somnuek Tanomklai, 47, a school bus driver, was shot dead by a motorcycle pillion rider on his way to pick up students in Sai Buri district yesterday.
In Yala, a group of 20 journalists and reporters from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia yesterday visited the province in order to gain first-hand information on the situation in the strife-torn South.
The visit was held for the second year in a row. A project has also been drawn up to invite members of the media from Muslim countries to get updated information on and develop a better understanding of southern security issues.
The Foreign Ministry and the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC) are behind the project.
''We want to give the Muslim media a clearer understanding about the root cause of the problem,'' Yala governor Thira Mintrasak said.
SBPAC director Pranai Suwannarat said 500 scholars in the troubled region, from religious teachers to specialists on Islamic studies, would hold a brainstorming seminar on Saturday to come up with ways to ease the problems in the South.
The seminar is part of a project to place greater emphasis on regional scholars' role in working out solutions to the separatist violence.
An intelligence source said copies of leaflets were recently found in Sungai Padi and Cho Airong districts of Narathiwat expressing the insurgents' displeasure with the ceasefire announcement by the Thailand United Southern Underground group on July 17.
According to the leaflet, the low-ranking insurgents questioned the motive behind the ceasefire announcement.
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