RoP Launches Coordinated Attacks in Thailand
Charles Johnson
Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 5:50 pm PDT • Views: 178
Muslim insurgents launch 34 attacks in south Thailand. (Hat tip: Ringo.)
BANGKOK, Thailand: Suspected Muslim insurgents seized dozens of weapons in 34 coordinated nighttime attacks across southern Thailand, leaving six people dead, the military said Thursday.
The attacks took place over several hours along the Malaysian border in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces, said regional military spokesman Col. Somkuan Saengpataraneth.
The violence killed four villagers—two of them village chiefs—and two insurgents and injured seven other people, Somkuan said.
Initial reports showed that insurgents attacked at 34 places in the three provinces, and “took away dozens of guns from the houses of the village chiefs and from the village defense volunteers,” military spokesman Lt. Gen. Palangul Klaharn said on broadcaster ITV.
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