Pattani bomb kills soldier

Pattani bomb kills soldier

A soldier was killed and five others injured, two seriously, in a roadside bomb explosion in Pattani’s Mai Kaen district on Friday night, police said.

Six soldiers were patrolling in a pickup truck on a rural road at Ban Rang Mod Daeng in tambon Don Sai of Mai Kaen when a 20-kilogramme home-made bomb buried on the roadside exploded.

Sgt Saipetch Chankrachang was killed instantly, Sgt Amporn Uthaicheeva and Pvt Meerawan Jehmana were seriously injured and three others slightly wounded.

Both Sgt Saipetch and Sgt Amporn were taken to Hat Yai hospital by an army helicopter. The remaining three soldiers were sent Mai Kaen hospital.

Police blamed separatist militants.

More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in the three southernmost provinces and the four districts of Songkhla since the violence erupted afresh in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch.

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