Violence continues in Yala
A police sergeant was injured as a bomb went off when he was inspecting a suspicious object at a food shop in Yala's Thantoe district early Friday morning.
A group of police went to a market in the district at about 5.45 am after being alert of a suspicious object left in a food shop. As police were inspecting the object, an explosive went off, injuring Pol Sgt Samut Pongkrapan, 50, at his right eye. Initial investigation showed that suspected militants used the object as a decoy to lure police to the food shop. They then triggered the explosive. The explosion also damaged three nearby shops. Owner of the food shop told police that she alerted police after finding a mysterious item on a shelf in the shop. On Thursday, suspected militants reportedly beheaded a man in the presence of the victim's daughter. The man was identified as a 45-year-old Burmese worker at a prawn farm in the Nong Chik district of Pattani Thursday evening. Four armed men entered the prawn farm and blindfolded the man's 16-year-old daughter and shot the man at close range before beheading him, police said. The Nation
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