Five defence volunteers wounded in Yala bomb attack
วันพฤหัสบดี ที่ 27 ม.ค. 2554

YALA, Jan 27 - Five defence volunteers were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Yala Thursday morning as they returned from escorting teachers to school.

The victims were sent to hospital. They police found a pickup truck destroyed by the blast and an electric pole was felled down. Pieces of explosive devices was scattered nearby.

The police believed the remote-controlled bomb, weighing three to five kilogrammes, was attached to an electric power pole and was initially assumed to be the work of insurgents active in the area.

The government extended the state of emergency in Thailand's three southernmost insurgency-plagued provinces for another three months on Jan 18.

The extension is the 22nd since the law was introduced in mid-2005 to restore peace in the southern border region. The special law facilitates the operations of security agencies and allows them to detain suspected insurgents for an initial period of 30 days.

Earlier, the long-standing emergency decree and martial law were lifted in Pattani's Mae Lan district Dec 28 as a pilot move to scale down security in the southernmost provinces, a move which would eventually lead to the lifting of the special law in other areas of the three provinces. The emergency decree has been replaced by the Internal Security Act.

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