NarathiwatK: A roadside blast killed five security officers travelling to the scene of a fatal shooting in the Thai south on Friday, police said, amid a spike in attacks during the holy month of Ramadan.
The officers, responding to reports that a man had been shot last night in a rubber plantation in Narathiwat province, were targeted by one of two bombs hidden on the route into the area. “Our officials went to the scene but there was an explosion on the way,” said Police Lieutenant Colonel Prakard Eiadklai, inspector at the local Rue Soh district police station.
He said one person was wounded in the attack. The second bomb was defused and authorities were later able to reach the body of the shooting victim. In a separate blast in Yala yesterday, five refuse collectors were wounded, two of them seriously, on their morning rounds when a device hidden in a rubbish bag was detonated. (AFP)
