Suspected insurgent nabbed in raid in South
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A 24-year-old suspected insurgent was arrested in Yala town early yesterday, while, in a separate case, Pattani Court issued a warrant for the arrest of a suspect involved in the February 9 car bomb that killed one person and injured 12 others outside the
Following a tip-off about an insurgent suspect’s hideout and that insurgents were plotting to attack officials from March 6-8, about 60 police and troops raided a house in Ban Baluka in Tambon Lam Mai at 5am. The team – led by No 11 Yala special taskforce commander Col Thanut Pisalsithiwat and Lam Mai police station chief Pol Lt-Col Narong Thongkhao – arrested Ahmad Ussanibakoh, 24.
Ahmad, wanted on warrants for alleged attacks on state authorities and inciting unrest in the three southernmost provinces, was taken for interrogation at the Lam Mai police station.
The team also went to collect more evidence and DNA samples at another house in Moo 4 of Tambon Lammai, where another insurgent suspect, Hamdi Tolubo, who was arrested on February 22, used to stay.
The Pattani Court issued a warrant for the arrest of 34-year-old suspect Masore Deurama. He is alleged to have parked a car with a bomb in it that exploded outside the local public health office last month. Masore was wanted for national security cases, Pattani police chief Pichet Pitisetthapan said.
