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| Southeast Asia |
| Thailand Jihad-Mortars fired at police camp, attempt to derail train |
| 2004-04-14 |
| Unidentified assailants fired mortars at a border police camp and an attempt to derail trains was thwarted today in southern Thailand’s troubled, Muslim-dominated south, officials said. The incidents occurred as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra prepared to spend the night at a Buddhist temple in the region after a half-day visit to the area. Thaksin was in Pattani province, about a two-hour drive from the Bannangsata district of Yala province where three M-79 mortars were fired at a Border Patrol Police camp. One mortar hit a temporary shelter in the camp, damaging it, but there were no casualties, police Lieutenant Colonel Pitak Eadkaew. Elsewhere in Pattani, maintenance workers discovered about 80 bolts removed from a section of track about 4km from the Pa Rai train station, said the station’s chief, Wiphap Chusong. |
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