Police link fatal Narathiwat shooting to 21 other attacks
Ten individuals have been apprehended over the March 2 fatal shooting of four people, including assistant village headman Somchai Thongchan and an eight-year-old boy, in Narathiwat's Reu So district, the Internal Security Operation Command (ISOC)'s Fourth Region Forward Command announced on Friday.
A 12-year-old girl was also injured in the shooting.
Forward command spokesman Col Pramote Phrom-in said that Fourth Army commander Piyawat Nakwanich had instructed the relevant agencies to provide remedial measures for the affected persons and urged all sides to help solve the case. As a result 10 suspects were detained for questioning and had provided useful information related to a group behind the attack, he said.
A police forensic probe found that five rifles and one 9mm pistol were used in the attack, which they linked to 21 other violent attacks in the region, including the July 6, 2015 attack that killed one man and wounded three others in Yala's Raman district, the July 31, 2015 assault of a military outpost in Yaha district and an October 17, 2015 shooting that injured four people in Reu So district.
