20220205 Blast injures 2 bomb squad police officers
Thailand Feb 05 2022 “Automobile & Railway”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 1 to 9
Blast injures 2 bomb squad police officers
Updated: 2022-02-05
SONGKHLA: Two police officers from a bomb disposal unit were wounded in a blast yesterday morning while examining the site of an explosion that injured one villager on Thursday evening.
The area where the incident happened is close to a mosque where three militants were killed by soldiers on Thursday morning.
The bomb squad, guarded by soldiers and other police officers, was working near a railway bridge in Chana district’s tambon Ban Na. An area nearby the Nam Khem-Bo Ton Sae intersection had been cordoned off for the inspection.
At about 9.30am yesterday, a loud explosion coming from where the two police officers and their sniffer dogs were working was heard. The two officers — identified as Pol Snr Sgt Maj Wisit Buasri and Pol Snr Sgt Maj Soracha Anuyato — were later found injured and rushed to hospital.
A source said the bomb was planted near the railway track, not far from where a villager lost a leg after stepping on a landmine buried near a bridge on Thursday evening.
The victim was identified as Sutthisak Meansen, 44, who was going fishing.
Wangsati Udomdee, assistant head of Nam Khem village Moo 9, said yesterday Mr Sutthisak was injured in an area surrounded by four villages.
The victim worked as a labourer and had six children, he said, adding Mr Sutthisak is now safe.
On Thursday morning, three suspected militants were killed as they tried to break through security forces surrounding a study centre at a mosque in the same area.
Soldiers with two armoured vehicles had surrounded the centre in tambon Ban Na at about 5.30am, said Col Kiatsak Neewong, PR chief of the southern office of the Internal Security Operations Command.
Efforts to persuade the men inside to surrender met no response, he said, adding three armed men ran out of the building and opened fire on the soldiers.
The soldiers returned fire and the three men were killed, he said.
The three were armed with two rifles and a handgun and all were wanted on arrest warrants, Col Kiatsak said, adding there had been previous attempts to capture them.
Web Source: Bangkok Post
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