Six border patrol police were wounded by a bomb
explosion while on teacher escort duty in Bannang Sata district of Yala
province on Wednesday morning.
Pol Col Suwat Wongpaiboon, the Bannang Sata police chief, said the attacked occurred about 9am.
Six police are injured by a bomb blast while on teacher escort duty in Yala on Nov 2, 2011. (Photos by Muhammad Ayub Pathan)The six members of the 44th BPP unit were travelling by pick-up truck along a road to Ban Polo Bata in tambon Taling Chan.
As the vehicle passed by a stream near the village, militants hiding on one side of the road detonated a 20kg home-made bomb planted in the road.
The explosion sent the pick-up truck careering into a ditch.
All six members of the escort team were injured, one seriously. They were admitted to Bannang Sata hospital.
The Prince of Songkla University's Deep South Watch centre today reported that 46 people had been killed in the violence in the three southern border provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala in October 2011.
The fatalities included two policemen, one soldier and one school employee. The rest were villagers, farmers and other civilians.
Another 110 people were injured in the violence last month, Deep South Watch reported. Eight of them were police, 12 were soldiers and one was a school employee.
There were 121 violent incidents in the region during October - 52 bombings, 44 shootings and 25 attacks involving other means of violence.
About 4,800 people have been killed and around 9,000 hurt in the far South since the separatist violence erupted afresh in January 2004.
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