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Four soldiers wounded in Yala bombing; Restaurant grenade attackers still at large
YALA, June 13 (TNA) - Four soldiers were wounded early Sunday after a bomb detonated by suspected insurgents destroyed their pickup truck while travelling on a road in the troubled southern province of Yala, police said.
Combined government forces rushed to the scene of the incident and found the army pickup truck overturned in front of a factory in the provincial town, police said.
They found an electric wire from the scene of the explosion, dragged into a nearby roadside rubber plantation.The four wounded soldiers were sent to the provincial hospital for treatment.
In another incident Saturday evening, also in Yala, one person died and 14 others wounded after an unidentified man threw grenades at two restaurants.
By early Sunday, police searched more than 30 houses in the province where the bomber is suspected to be in hiding. However, no one was arrested.
In a related incident in the neighbouring province of Pattani on Saturday night, police Sunday looked for more evidence at a karaoke bar which was hit by a grenade attack and where the owner's son-in-law was wounded. Police found a number of the grenade fragments inside the bar. (TNA)
Combined government forces rushed to the scene of the incident and found the army pickup truck overturned in front of a factory in the provincial town, police said.
They found an electric wire from the scene of the explosion, dragged into a nearby roadside rubber plantation.The four wounded soldiers were sent to the provincial hospital for treatment.
In another incident Saturday evening, also in Yala, one person died and 14 others wounded after an unidentified man threw grenades at two restaurants.
By early Sunday, police searched more than 30 houses in the province where the bomber is suspected to be in hiding. However, no one was arrested.
In a related incident in the neighbouring province of Pattani on Saturday night, police Sunday looked for more evidence at a karaoke bar which was hit by a grenade attack and where the owner's son-in-law was wounded. Police found a number of the grenade fragments inside the bar. (TNA)
