73 violent incidents happen in deep South in March

THURSDAY, APRIL 05, 2012
73 violent incidents happen in deep South in March

A total of 73 violent incidents happened in southern border provinces in March, killing 56 people and injuring 547 others, a university announced.

 

The Deep South Watch of Prince Songkla Unviersity’s Pattani Campus announced Thursday that a total of 73 insurgency-related incidents were reported in the southern border province from March 1 to 31.
The incidents included three car-bomb attacks, three motorcycle-bomb attacks, 16 roadside bomb attacks, 34 shooting incident and six arson attacks.
Of the 56 slain victims were 29 civilians, three police, nine troops, five defense volunteers, a student, a tambon administrative organisation official, three tambon and village heads, two government employees, a private firm employee, a foreign worker and a suspect insurgent.
The Nation