Published: 12/12/2011
A grenade was fired into a military outpost in Pattani's Yarang district yesterday, badly wounding a soldier.
The grenade fired from an M79 launcher was believed to be targeting soldiers from the Pattani Task Force 21 who were guarding their base around noon. It hit a tree in the compound and exploded. Sgt Katepon Khonkaen, 25, was taken to hospital with serious shrapnel wounds to the head.
Police believed militants fired the grenade about 100 metres from a riverbank behind the base.
A team of security forces combed the area to track down the attackers but did not find them.
In Narathiwat, security forces raided a suspected hideout of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil separatist movement in Rangae district yesterday, arresting two suspected militants and seizing a motorcycle bomb.
A 60-strong team comprising police, village defence volunteers and members of the 45th Rangers Regiment raided a house at Ban Kloo Ko village in tambon Ba-ngor where members of the insurgent group were thought to be hiding.
The operation was carried out after intelligence reports indicated the rebels were drawing up plans to commit acts of sabotage during the New Year holidays.
Two teenage males, whose names were not disclosed, were in the house when the team arrived. They were taken for questioning at an operations base of the 45th Rangers Regiment.
The team searched the house and found food supplies and about a dozen survival items, Col Chalermchai Sutthinuan, commander of the 45th Rangers Regiment, said.
They also spotted a motorcycle parked behind the house. A bomb disposal team was called in to examine the vehicle.
The bomb experts said five kilogrammes of explosives were packed in a metal box and hidden in the motorcycle's helmet compartment. The explosives were designed to be detonated by radio signal. The bomb squad took 10 minutes to defuse the device.
Grenade blast at outpost wounds soldier
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