THAILAND: MUSLIM MILITANTS SUSPECTED OF PLANTING BOMB AT ROAD CHECKPOINT WHICH HAS INJURED SIX SOLDIERS

Record ID: 358858

  • Title: THAILAND: MUSLIM MILITANTS SUSPECTED OF PLANTING BOMB AT ROAD CHECKPOINT WHICH HAS INJURED SIX SOLDIERS
  • Date: 7th December 2004
  • Summary: (W3) NARATHIWAT, THAILAND (REUTERS) (DECEMBER 7, 2004) (NIGHT SCENES) 1. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL 0.04 2. VARIOUS OF INJURED SOLDIERS BEING CARRIED OUT OF AMBULANCE AND TAKEN TO HOSPITAL 0.41 3. WIDE OF SOLDIER AND AMBULANCE OUTSIDE HOSPITAL 0.46 (W3) NARATHIWAT, THAILAND (REUTERS) (DECEMBER 8, 2004) (DAY SC
  • Embargoed: 22nd December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: NARATHIWAT, THAILAND
  • Country: Thailand
  • Reuters ID: LVAE2YE7ADB95YJRPWRMV6VYGI0E
  • Story Text: Six Thai soldiers wounded by checkpoint bomb.



    Six Thai soldiers were wounded by an improvised bomb
    hidden under a road checkpoint in southern Thailand by
    suspected Muslim militants, police said on Wednesday
    (December 8).

    The explosives, remotely triggered by a cellular phone
    late on Tuesday (December 7), had been planted in soft clay
    ground at the temporary checkpoint in predominantly Muslim
    Narathiwat province before the soldiers arrived, police
    told Reuters.

    Most of the soldiers sustained nail and glass shrapnel
    wounds.

    Narathiwat is in Thailand's deep south where an 11
    month wave of violence blamed on criminal gangs and Muslim
    separatists has claimed nearly 500 lives.

    Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is likely to be
    re-elected in a general election due by February, faces his
    biggest security challenge in the restive region near the
    border with Malaysia.

    The deep south, which has a century-long history of
    often violent opposition to rule by Bangkok, saw a low-key
    separatist insurgency in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Muslim anger in the region intensified after the deaths
    of 85 protesters in October, including 78 who suffocated or
    were crushed to death in army trucks after being arrested.

    Around 30 people, most of them Buddhists, have since
    been killed in apparent revenge attacks.



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