51 killed in far South last month
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Prince of Songkhla University's Deep South Watch reported yesterday that 51 people were killed and 157 wounded in 67 violent incidents in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in September.
The news came as a Narathiwat village headman and a Pattani truck driver were killed in separate incidents yesterday.
In Narathiwat’s Chanae district, Ban Irzo headman Waepayunan Sideh, 50, was shot dead at around 11am while getting out of his pick-up truck to inspect the progress of construction of a mosque in Ban Ipea-sae. Witnesses told police a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle shot at Waepayunan three times with a pistol before fleeing. Police suspected it was the work of insurgents, as the victim had helped authorities.
In Pattani’s Khok Pho district, truck driver Pisut Boonnap, 61, was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle at about 8am while driving his motorcycle to a teashop along Chonprathan Rd.
