Bangkok Post, January 6, 2012
Three people were killed in two separate attacks in the southern border province of Narathiwat on Friday morning.
Sungai Kolok police chief Chakkraporn Thaengthong said a man was
killed and his wife wounded in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat’s
Sungai Kolok district this morning.The victims were identified as Rohaya Cheteh, 32, a teacher of Ban Lalae school in tambon Puyoh of the district, and her husband Abdul Arwae Cheteh, 51.
They were travelling in a pickup truck to Sungai Kolok municipality about 5am when a man riding pillion on a motorcycle fired at them with an 11mm handgun. The assailants fled.
Rohaya was shot in her right hand while Abdul Arwae took several bullets in his torso.
The victims were taken to Sungai Kolok hospital, where Abdul was later pronounced dead.
In another incident, two defence volunteers were killed and three others seriously injured in an attack by gunmen in Narathiwat’s Rueso district, reports said.
The volunteers were guarding a garment factory in Ban Yalae Boh in Rueso when the gunmen opened fire at them, the reports said.
Joint military and police force were inspecting the spot, according to the reports.
More than 4,500 people have been killed and about 9,000 hurt in the three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since the violence erupted afresh in January 2004.
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