Violence continues in Narathiwat
Narathiwat - Violence continued in the deep South as an official was shot dead and a bomb explosion injured a police officer on Friday.
A member of Chernkiri's Tambon Administrative Organisation, Saipudin Muming, 37, was found dead on BankadeeBantamung Road in Srisakorn district of Narathiwat yesterday morning. His body was riddled with bullets.Police said he was riding his motorbike to attend a meeting when four gunmen riding in a pickup truck approached him from behind and opened fire with a shot gun before fleeing the crime scene. Saipudin died instantly. Around the same time in the centre of Narathiwat's Muang district, a sevenkilogram bomb, hidden between the teashop and an aquarium, exploded while the shop was crowded with villagers and police. The bomb injured Pol Sgt Maj Wichit Chantrawiboon and partially destroyed the shop as shrapnel spread in a 30 metre radius. Police suspected Muslim insurgents remotely detonated the bomb with a mobile phone. Also in Narathiwat, suspected Muslim insurgents placed a fivekilo bomb under a roadside pavilion on BachoBanthon road in Bacho district. It was detonated but no one was injured. More than 1,700 people have been killed since the violence reemerged in the deep south since January 2004. The Nation
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