Teacher protection security force ambushed in Yala; two beheaded

A teacher protection unit came under fire after their security assignment had been completed.

The two rangers were killed in action as the government unit was patrolling the Kasod-Bang Lang Dam Road in Yala's Bannang Sata district. An insurgent group of undetermined size hidden at the roadside opened fire with automatic weapons.

The groups exchanged fire, and two paramilitary rangers became separated from the main government force. The attackers decapitated the dead soldiers, taking their heads away with them before they withdrew.

Security forces later recovered the two victims' heads from a nearby stream bed. Joint forces of police and military are hunting the assailants in Yala.