Saturday, May 7, 2011

At least seven killed by two bomb attacks in Thailand

.- At least seven personnel of the security forces were killed and seven others seriously injured in two bomb attacks perpetrated today by rebels of the Islamic movement in the Muslim region of southern Thailand, police said. In a first attack, three soldiers died when the military vehicle they were traveling in Yala province was hit by the explosion of a device placed on a roadside.

Yala provincial police station said that in that same attack wounded two other soldiers prognosis. In another similar action of the insurgents, held about ten minutes after the first in the neighboring province of Pattani, four policemen were killed and five were admitted to the provincial hospital in critical condition.

In addition nine other agents made by impact of the explosion suffered minor injuries. The lightly armed attacks, assassinations and bombings occur in southern Thailand, despite the deployment of 31 000 members of the security forces and the declaration of a state of emergency. Nearly four thousand five hundred people have died in the region since the Islamic separatist movement resumed armed struggle in January 2004 after a decade of guerrilla activity poor.

Thailand annexed in 1902 the provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which formed the former sultanate of Pattani, where most of the population is Muslim and ethnic Malay. The insurgents denounce the Buddhist cultural assimilation policy of the Thai government and require the creation of an independent Islamic state.

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