Eight soldiers patrolling a road as a protection unit for schoolteachers and students in Narathiwat province escaped injury Thursday morning when a bomb went off near them.
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	They were on a routine patrol on Yeengor-Jakwa road in Tambon Baan Tanote in Rusoh district at about 8am when the bomb went off. The eight make up the protection unit for four schools in the area.</div>
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	The explosion was absorbed by a roadside wood although it destroyed the pole of village&rsquo;s name board where the bomb was planted.</div>

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