One killed in Pattani gun attack
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A man was shot dead on Manang Dalam-Kapho Road near a village in tambon Karubi in Pattani's Kapho district yesterday afternoon.
The man, identified as state employee Vorasit Phuenpha, 39, sustained three gunshots to his body.
Eyewitnesses told police that the victim, who was on a motorcycle, had been shot by one of the two men following him on another motorbike. The incident took place at about 1pm.
Later at about 2.30pm, a bomb exploded at a motorcycle parking area in front of Pattana Islam School in Pattani’s Muang district, damaging three motorcycles but causing no casualties.
Mustopa Matrudin, 26, a teacher of the school and owner of one of the damaged motorcycles, told police that some people saw two teenagers arrive on a motorcycle and put an object under his vehicle’s seat before leaving shortly before the bomb exploded.
