Human_Error
06-22-2005, 03:52 PM
http://www.bakersfield.com/24hour/world/story/2502838p-10858813c.html
Thai man beheaded during lunch hour
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<!-- End Component: Bakersfield: component/Includes/bylines_reporters.comp --><!-- End Component: Bakersfield: component/Includes/bylines_columnists.comp -->Posted: Wednesday June 22nd, 2005, 9:24 AM
Last Updated: Wednesday June 22nd, 2005, 9:32 AM
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Suspected Islamic separatists beheaded a man at a teashop Wednesday and then left his head in a sack on the side of the road, the latest in a series of bold attacks across southern Thailand defying government attempts to restore peace. In separate incidents also attributed to suspected Islamic militants, two bombs were detonated in Narathiwat province, injuring eight people, including two Buddhist monks.
Lek Pongpla, 34, a clothes vendor from northern Thailand, was shot twice before two attackers cut off his head in the teashop in Narathiwat's Joh Irong district, said police Lt. Wattana Ketamphai, citing the shopowner's account.
The attackers then put his head in a sack, which they left on a road about a mile away, Wattana said. He initially said a sole attacker carried out the killing in front of three customers, but he later said there were no customers present, without explaining the discrepancy.
It was the fifth beheading in just over two weeks. More than 880 people have been killed since January last year, when a resurgent Islamic separatist movement intensified a campaign of bombings and killings in Thailand's far south. Most of the attacks are drive-by shootings and small bombings.
Thai man beheaded during lunch hour
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<!-- End Component: Bakersfield: component/Includes/bylines_reporters.comp --><!-- End Component: Bakersfield: component/Includes/bylines_columnists.comp -->Posted: Wednesday June 22nd, 2005, 9:24 AM
Last Updated: Wednesday June 22nd, 2005, 9:32 AM
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Suspected Islamic separatists beheaded a man at a teashop Wednesday and then left his head in a sack on the side of the road, the latest in a series of bold attacks across southern Thailand defying government attempts to restore peace. In separate incidents also attributed to suspected Islamic militants, two bombs were detonated in Narathiwat province, injuring eight people, including two Buddhist monks.
Lek Pongpla, 34, a clothes vendor from northern Thailand, was shot twice before two attackers cut off his head in the teashop in Narathiwat's Joh Irong district, said police Lt. Wattana Ketamphai, citing the shopowner's account.
The attackers then put his head in a sack, which they left on a road about a mile away, Wattana said. He initially said a sole attacker carried out the killing in front of three customers, but he later said there were no customers present, without explaining the discrepancy.
It was the fifth beheading in just over two weeks. More than 880 people have been killed since January last year, when a resurgent Islamic separatist movement intensified a campaign of bombings and killings in Thailand's far south. Most of the attacks are drive-by shootings and small bombings.