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Mon, 11/21/2011 - 10:08
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Monks And Villager Wounded In Fresh Violence In Deep South

BANGKOK, November 21 (TNA) - A group of Buddhist monks, civilians and even a police officer were wounded in a bomb attack in downtown Pattani Province of Thailand's insurgency-plagued southern border region Monday morning; while a villager in nearby Narathiwat Province was also wounded in a separate attack by a gunman. The bombing in Pattani's Muang District injured four monks from the Kachorn Pracharam Temple, one police escort and three villagers in front of a shop in Rusamilae Sub-district. Authorities said that the bomb, planted in a steel box weighing some three kilograms, placed in bushes and detonated with a communication radio, also damaged some trees, marble benches and an overhang of the shop and was believed to be a retaliation of a recent killing of a leading suspected insurgent by local security officers. In Narathiwat, a 22-year-old vegetable vendor was also injured with gunshot from a motorcyclist while he was driving his pick-up truck carrying vegetables to a fresh market in the Muang Municipality's Manang Tayo locality. Authorities said they believed that it was an insurgent act. (TNA)

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