Monday killing in South probably ‘personal’, say police
Violence continued in the deep South on Monday with the latest case involving a male villager being gunned down by an unknown assailant who called on his home in Narathiwat’s Sri Sakhon district early Monday morning.
The fatal shooting of villager Arong Wado, 27, took place at around 2am at his home in Ban E-nor (Moo 2) of Tambon Sri Sakhon. Police found Arong’s dead body with four gunshots to his head, chest and left leg in his home’s livingroom hallway, and recovered two spent 9mm bullets near his body.
The initial probe found that Arong was having a meal while his two small children were sleeping in a bedroom when an unknown gunman shouted his name and called for him to answer the door. As he opened the door, he was shot four times before the gunman fled.
Sri Sakhon superintendent Pol Colonel Suthon Sukwiset said police suspected Arong’s killing might have resulted from a personal conflict rather than the region’s ongoing unrest. Arong had a prior arrest for drugs abuse.
Meanwhile, police were checking CCTV footage as part of the ongoing search for those behind several bomb attacks that hit Pattani province on Sunday. Those attacks led to two cases of minor injuries, including Yaring district chief Adul Meensen, said provincial police chief Pol Maj General Piyawat Chalermsri.
Officers also beefed up security in Muang Pattani by setting up checkpoints to screen vehicles coming into the city as a precaution against any further attack, Piyawat added.