Suspected insurgent killed after 5am clash at school in Pattani
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A SUSPECTED insurgent was killed in a clash with security |officers in Pattani's Muang district yesterday morning, while another suspected insurgent was arrested and another surrendered.
A 12-hour standoff between officers and three suspects at a local school in Ban Sungai Panae of Tambon Bana ended at about 5.30pm yesterday.
Officials said later they believe the suspects had fled from the scene, so they withdrew from the area.
After being instructed by the Fourth Army Region chief not to use violence if suspects do not fire first, the officers surrounded the school and used religious leaders to try and negotiate with the |suspects via a megaphone but they received no reply.
A 10-minute gunfight erupted at about 5am when the officers, responding to a tipoff, surrounded the school.
Shot dead was Mahamawu Jehheh, 31, while Waesohoh Doloh, 30, was arrested.
After an hour of talks, Suriya Taha, 29, surrendered.
Separately, Tak Bai police superintendent Colonel Jiradech Phrasawang clarified at a press conference in Narathiwat’s Tak Bai district yesterday that out of six serious cases in the district since January 1, two were national security cases while the four |others related to drug trafficking or personal conflicts.
Meanwhile, a homemade bomb, discovered at a wooded area near a Ban Koh Sam pond in Tambon Lampai of Songkhla’s Thepa district, was defused by the Border Police’s bomb squad on Friday night.
It was suspected that Songkhla Governor Thamrong Charoenkul, who will preside over the opening of a rowboat competition at the area on Friday and Saturday, was the target of the bomb.
