About 20 people wounded in insurgent attacks in Narathiwat province
NARATHIWAT, Feb 20 About 20 persons were wounded by a shooting and car bomb by presumed insurgents Saturday night in the trouble-plagued southern province of Narathiwat.
The first incident occurred at a karaoke restaurant where two female workers were injured in a shooting late Saturday night. Half an hour later, while the police were investigating the restaurant shooting, a bomb went off 100 metres away, wounding 20 persons.
The police said the bombers placed explosives inside a car with a fake licence plate. The bomb was believed to have been detonated with a cell-phone.
One of the victims is now in critical condition as she is receiving treatment in an intensive care unit of a hospital in Narathiwat province.
The latest incident occurred in Narathiwat when an unknown number of insurgents fired at another karaoke restaurant with an M79 automatic rifle, damaging rooms on the third floor and shattering glass windows and doors.
No casualties were reported as employees of the restaurant inside it at the time of the incident. Police said they believed the gunmen fired from the lawn of an ice-making factory which is situated opposite the restaurant.
Some 4,000 people have been killed in the troubled southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since insurgents launched renewed fighting against the government in early January 2004. (MCOT online news)
The first incident occurred at a karaoke restaurant where two female workers were injured in a shooting late Saturday night. Half an hour later, while the police were investigating the restaurant shooting, a bomb went off 100 metres away, wounding 20 persons.
The police said the bombers placed explosives inside a car with a fake licence plate. The bomb was believed to have been detonated with a cell-phone.
One of the victims is now in critical condition as she is receiving treatment in an intensive care unit of a hospital in Narathiwat province.
The latest incident occurred in Narathiwat when an unknown number of insurgents fired at another karaoke restaurant with an M79 automatic rifle, damaging rooms on the third floor and shattering glass windows and doors.
No casualties were reported as employees of the restaurant inside it at the time of the incident. Police said they believed the gunmen fired from the lawn of an ice-making factory which is situated opposite the restaurant.
Some 4,000 people have been killed in the troubled southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since insurgents launched renewed fighting against the government in early January 2004. (MCOT online news)
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