Five rangers were slightly injured when suspected insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in an ambush in Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district yesterday.
The bomb attached to a 15-kilogram gas cylinder was detonated by a mobile phone at 11.45am on a main road in Dohaemae village in Tambon Rico while the five rangers were passing in a pickup truck heading to their base.
After the attack, police arrested two people and took them in for questioning over the incident.
On Sunday evening, defence volunteer Mahamarohsaki Srisom-on, 42, was fatally shot, once in the head and twice in the torso, in Yala's Raman district while he was riding a motorcycle home. Police suspected the murder was part of the unrest in the district.
Earlier on the same day, fruit seller Jidore Hayimama, 53, was seriously injured in the neck by a mysterious gunshot while he was selecting fruit at a market in Tambon Sateng Nok in Yala's Muang district.
Yesterday, the deputy secretary-general of the Office of the Basic Education Commission, Dr Somkiat Chobphol, presided over the royally sponsored cremation ceremony of Dusong Payae School director Pichai Seusaeng Suasaeng, 55, at Wat Noppawongsaram in Pattani's Muang district. Pichai was shot dead last Wednesday. July 21