Southern Violence : Assistant village chief killed in Narathiwat

Assistant village chief killed in Narathiwat
12/02/2011

An assistant village headman was shot dead in an ambush in Narathiwat’s Rangae district on Saturday morning, said Pol Capt Heraman Jehdee, duty officer at Rangae police station.

Bueraheng Kader, 43, assistant village chief of Hurupareh village, was attacked on the intra-village road in his village by gunmen hiding in roadside rubber forest while on his motorcycle back home from his rubber plantation.

He was shot several times in the body and head and died at the scene.

The attackers had taken his .38 caliber pistol with them before fleeing.

Police found 19 empty shells of M16 and AK47 assault rifles at the rubber forest.

They blamed separatist militants.

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