RoP Strikes in Thailand
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 8, 2006 at 8:46 am PDT • Views: 165
Five police killed in bomb blast. (Hat tip: Aussiemagpie.)
A BOMB killed five policemen and wounded three in Thailand’s rebellious Muslim south today, police said.
The bomb went off as the eight officers were travelling to pick up teachers from a school in Narathiwat, one of the three southernmost provinces where more than 1,300 people have been killed in a two-year separatist insurgency.
“They were travelling in two trucks to provide security for teachers who were leaving school for home,” a police officer said by telephone.
More than 100 government schools in the Muslim far south were closed for several weeks last month after villagers abducted and beat two women Buddhist teachers, leaving one in a coma.
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