THAILAND: UP TO EIGHT PEOPLE WOUNDED IN TWIN BOMB ATTACKS IN RESTIVE SOUTH AHEAD OF VISIT OF THAI PM SHINAWATRA

Record ID: 355629

  • Title: THAILAND: UP TO EIGHT PEOPLE WOUNDED IN TWIN BOMB ATTACKS IN RESTIVE SOUTH AHEAD OF VISIT OF THAI PM SHINAWATRA
  • Date: 14th February 2005
  • Summary: (W2) JOH AIRONG, NARATHIWAT PROVINCE, THAILAND (FEBRUARY 14, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. TRUCK DESTROYED FROM BOMB BLAST 0.04 2. CLOSE OF SHATTERED CAR WINDSCREEN 0.10 3. THAI SOLDIERS SEARCHING FOR EVIDENCE 0.15 4. SOLDIER GUARDING 0.19 5. SOLDIERS GUARDING BOMB SCENE 0.26 6. EXTERIOR OF JOH AIRONG DISTRICT HOSPITAL 0.29
  • Embargoed: 1st March 2005 12:00
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  • Location: NARATHIWAT, THAILAND
  • Country: Thailand
  • Reuters ID: LVA4WP1QUXPH6YGPSUHW2HT2BM7A
  • Story Text: Bombs wound 8 in Thai south before Thaksin trip.



    Up to 8 people have been wounded in a twin bomb
    attack in Thailand's restive south on Monday (February 14).

    The blasts occurred hours before Prime Minister Thaksin
    Shinawatra was due to meet top aides to revise security
    tactics in the region ahead of a visit there later this
    week.

    Thaksin, who won a second term in a landslide last week
    but not one seat in the largely Muslim south, said he would
    improve coordination of efforts to restore peace in the
    region, where more than 500 people have been killed since
    January last year.

    There has been another surge in violence in the three
    far south provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since
    Thaksin won his second term, the first elected Thai prime
    minister to do so.

    Militants have targeted troops and police with
    remote-controlled bombs, killed civil servants and set
    schools on fire.

    On Monday, they detonated a bomb in front of a school
    in Narathiwat's Joh Airong district aimed at a joint
    security patrol that guards teachers travelling to and from
    school, police said.

    The bomb missed the patrol, but a second bomb detonated
    15 minutes later about 100 metres (yards) away wounded
    eight soldiers and police who came to examine the site of
    the first explosion.

    Despite the attacks, Thaksin insisted he would fly to
    all three provinces on Wednesday as planned.



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