Three security officers were wounded, one seriously, in separate bomb and grenade attacks in the troubled southern provinces of Pattani and Yala on Friday night and Saturday morning.
In Pattani, a roadside bomb went off in tambon Bang Khao in Nong Chik district as an eight-member police team travelling on a motorcycle and a pickup truck drove past, said Pol Lt Thanet Saengniran, a duty officer at the Nong Chik police station. The attack was reported around 7.30am on Saturday.
The impact of the explosion wounded Pol L/C Ninawawee Yarantnu, who sustained serious injuries, and Pol Cpl Sorlae Bu-edam.
Earlier in the same district, another bomb exploded on the Pattani-Nong Chik Road in tambon Yuyong shortly after midnight, destroying two power poles. Nobody was hurt.
In Yala, an army captain was wounded in a grenade attack on a military base in Bannang Sata district on Friday night. The attack occurred at about 8pm when a group of armed men using M79 launchers fired at the military base in tambon Bachor.
One of the grenades landed in front of a communications room where Capt Nakhon Pimsan was standing. The force of the blast resulted in shrapnel wounds and he was taken to Yala Hospital. The other grenades landed behind the military base.
Pol Col Chartchai Thanasit, superintendent of the Bannang Sata police station, led a team of police and bomb disposal officers to inspect the military base on Saturday morning.
The attack left a crater in front of the communications room and three more craters behind the military base. The walls and ceilings of the building were also damaged.