Saturday, November 13, 2004
Buddhist teacher killed in Thailand
BANGKOK: Motorcycle-borne gunmen shot and killed a martial arts teacher in Thailand's restive Muslim south on Friday, the latest Buddhist killed in apparent revenge for the deaths of 85 Muslims, police said.
They also said police had defused a bomb planted at the residential quarters of a police station in a compound also housing a primary school and designed to be set off by mobile phone. Hiran Kongcharoen, a 45-year-old kick-boxing teacher at a school in Yala province, was shot in the head and knee as he was returning home from a funeral in the neighbouring province of Pattani and died in hospital, they said.
14 injured: A small bomb exploded at a restaurant Friday, wounding 14 people in the latest violence to strike Thailand's troubled south, police said. The bombing in Narathiwat town, the capital of Narathiwat province, was one of several apparently coordinated attacks Friday in at least five other parts of the province, police said. Police Maj Kamon Potiyop said someone left a bomb in a bag at the eatery and detonated it later with a mobile phone.
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