Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand

Tue, May 22, 2007 at 7:52:32 am PDT

This time the jihadis in south Thailand injured a photographer for TIME Magazine: Foreign newsman wounded in Yala.

(BangkokPost.com, dpa) - Insurgents shot dead a Buddhist man and burnt his body in an increasingly used atrocity in Yala early Tuesday, before detonating a bomb at police responding to the scene, wounding four people including a foreign photographer.

Police said they were informed of the charred body at around 6.30 a.m. so they rushed to the scene in Muang district. The man was found to have been shot and his motorcycle was also found to have been burnt.

When they arrived at the scene a bomb exploded on the roadside, slightly injuring three police men and Australian photographer Philip Blenkinsop.

“We were lucky that there were no scraps of metal in the bomb,” said Yala Police Lieutenant Colonel Salawudh Wongderm. Blenkinsop, a World Press Photo winner, was only slightly injured by the explosion.

(Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.)