3 monks, 3 policemen, 3 civilians injured in Pattani bomb attack
Three monks, three policemen and three local residents were slightly wounded after a homemade bomb went off in front of a laundry shop on Charoen Pradit Road in Pattani's Mueang district Monday morning.
The monks from Wat Khajorn Pracharam, guarded by three policemen, were collecting alms when the three-kilogram bomb, hidden under a flowerpot near Nuch Laundry Shop was detonated by a remote control and exploded when the group was about five meters away from it, said Mueang Pattani Police Station Superintendant Pol Col Somporn Meesuk.
The wounded Phra Jin Panichkul, 52, Phra Yongyuth Khaoborisut, 35, Phra Worapong Sutthipong, 54, Pol Cpl Thanom Khonwai, 29, Pol Cpl Kampanart Malawan, 28, Pol Cpl Prakarn Chedipeng, 26, as well as civilians Chat Sukubol, 72, Chid Sukubol, 70 and Yeun Sukhonkhet, 72 were rushed to Pattani hospital. Police suspected this was the insurgents’ doing as to create chaos in the region.
The Nation
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