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New beheading in South
Published on June 30, 2005
Buddhist waterworks foreman killed in front of workers; head found 7km away
A Buddhist waterworks foreman was decapitated yesterday in Narathiwat’s Rangae district - the sixth beheading in the deep
South this month - police said yesterday.
The headless body of community water foreman Surin Somjit, 59, was found in a rubber plantation in tambon Borngor’s Ban Anae village in the afternoon. His head was found on a roadside seven kilometres away, said Captain Songpol Juimanee of Rangae police station.
Surin was supervising 19 workers - 17 Muslims and two Buddhists - while laying a pipe in the village in the morning, said headman Poryee Sama-ae.
Police said an unknown number of assailants shot Surin three times in the head and the others ran for their lives. Surin was dragged into a wooded area and decapitated. A note was found near his body saying: “You kill one of us, we’ll kill 20 of you.”
In related news, a roadside bomb was detonated yesterday morning in Tak Bai district, damaging a pickup truck, said Sub-Lieutenant Siripong Onlamoon of Tak Bai police station. No one was injured.
As a convoy of teachers drove to Ban Thaliang School, a bomb placed on a water pipeline exploded, slightly damaging the pickup of teacher Danai
Santiworakul, police said.
Some teachers were so terrified they did not dare continue on their way to school, Siripong said.
The string of attacks against teachers prompted Vichan Athikaphan, head of the Southern Teachers Federation, to call on teachers in other regions to form a movement against the insurgents.
“I’d like to urge fellow teachers to set up a movement in opposition to the southern insurgents. We teachers in the South have been living in fear,” he said.
Some Narathiwat schools near the scene of yesterday’s attacks have been shut down until Monday. Vichan said many local teachers were too considerate to ask security officials to protect them on trips outside schools, and the insurgents were using their outings as chances to strike.
In a related development, 52 juvenile courts nationwide yesterday launched a fund-raising fair at Sear Rangsit Department
Store that will be open until Monday to support judges and court officials in the deep South. Almost Bt1 million is expected to be raised and will be given to the provincial courts to manage, said Sirichai Chansawang, chief judge at the Central Juvenile and Family Court. |
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