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Unidentified gunmen shot up a passenger bus in northern Laos last week in an incident that officials and witnesses said was the work of bandits in an attack that was thwarted by the actions of the alert driver. The midnight attack on Jan. 14 on Route 13 North in Kasy district, 175 km (105 miles) north of the capital Vientiane, left one of about a dozen passengers in the vehicle injured, but caused no deaths. “While the bus was moving up a hill, the bandits fired about 50 shots at the vehicle. At first they shot front of the bus, then the side and back of the bus,†said a passenger who was on the bus when it was attacked and spoke to RFA’s Lao Service on condition of anonymity. more at the link http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/laos-bus-01202016175144.html It would appear that these kind of events, often thought of, as from the past, are still happening sporadically.