limbo Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 BBC World at the 4pm news, Thai time, short bulletin, there was some kind of shoot out in the south, looked like the police was being attacked. Anybody knows what's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Thai train ambushed by 'rebels' BCC News The armoured railway carriage was on a routine inspection of track in the province of Narathiwat when two bombs exploded, overturning the train. The police said the rebels then opened fire on the railway officials and their police escort. It is the latest in a string of attacks which have killed as many as 600 people in southern Thailand in the past year. The two blasts occurred at about 0615 local time on Sunday (2315 GMT Saturday) near the station of Sungai Kolok, close to the Malaysian border. The explosive devices were reportedly detonated by a mobile phone. A police spokesman said the militants were waiting along the railway tracks and opened fire in the moments after the blast. Police said it returned fire - and the gunfight lasted for at least 10 minutes before the attackers managed to escape. Among the 19 injured were 10 police officers. There have been no reports of casualties among the insurgents. Train operations had been suspended in the area, police said. This appears to be an escalation by the southern separatists who in the past have detonated roadside explosions, the BBC's Kylie Morris in the region reports. The government blames a revived separatist movement in the Muslim majority south for almost daily attacks on government officials, soldiers, police and Buddhist monks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted March 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Thnaks Kamui, Mods, maybe move this thread to news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 Hmmm, I am scheduled to take a train trip through the area in a couple of weeks - sounds like an adventure!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiamIAm Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Hope you have some military training and access to weapons...I'm sure the southern insurgents would LOVE to get their hands on a "Westerner"? BTW: the improvised explosives using cell phones as detonators are an earmark of Al-Quaeda, you can hear about the exact same IED?s on CNN in Iraq. I wonder where they learned to do that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 When a small group of "insurgents" attacked a Thai Army base over a year ago, murdering the guards in the process and stealing many M-16s and other weapons, some locals claimed they heard a few of the attackers speaking Indonesian -- not the local Yahwee Malay dialect. There is definitely a foreign element assisting the radicals who want an independent Pattani Islamic Republic. p.s. Interestingly enough, the former sultanate of Pattani is divided in half. The radicals have made no claims on the half that belongs to Malaysia, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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