Religion of Decapitation Rampaging in Thailand
Charles Johnson
Wed Jul 6, 2005 at 7:38 am PDT • Views: 198
Policeman beheaded in Thailand’s Muslim south. (Hat tip: GeoPoliticalReview.)
BANGKOK, July 6 (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic militants beheaded a policeman in Thailand’s restive Muslim south, officials said on Wednesday, the tenth decapitation in more than 18 months of unrest but the first such attack on police. At least two militants shot senior police sergeant Sampan Onyala, a 43-year-old Buddhist, with a pistol and an AK-47 rifle late on Tuesday in a Muslim village in Pattani, one of the three southernmost provinces plagued by the violence, police said.
“The bandits beheaded him and took his head with them. We had to give up our search last night because it was too dark,” a police officer in Pattani told Reuters by telephone. “We resumed our search this morning, but we still haven’t found it.”
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