Bomb wounds 4 rangers in restive S. Thailand
BANGKOK. August 23. KAZINFORM - Four paramilitary rangers providing security for teachers were injured, one critically, by a bomb explosion on Friday in restive southern province of Pattani, Bangkok Post online reported to Xinhua.
The four founded rangers were taken to Pattani hospital. According to witnesses, the four rangers were patrolling in a pickup truck along a local road in Pattani's Yarang district, about 500 meters from Sanor Pitthayakom school, when the bomb was detonated.
The pickup truck was damaged by the explosion. Police blamed separatist militants. More than 5,000 people have been killed and more than 9,000 injured in over 11,000 incidents, about 3.5 incidents a day, in Thailand's Muslim, ethnic-Malay dominated three southern border provinces -- Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and four districts of Songkhla -- since separatist violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, which monitors the regional violence.