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2010-04-21 |
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| Bombs kill policeman injure 53 people |
| A police sergeant was killed and 43 others were wounded when a grenade was thrown into their lines as they assembled for the national anthem in front of the Muang police station in Pattani on Wednesday morning, police said. |
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One of two men riding a motorcycle threw the hand grenade over the station fence, according to witnesses. It landed next to the flagpole, then exploded.
Police said the explosion killed a sergeant, who died on the way to hospital. Three others were in critical condition.
About two hours after the attack, a bomb hidden inside a car parked about 20 metres from the police station exploded, injuring at least 10 people, police said.
The explosion occurred about 10am as the commissioner of the Southern Border Province Bureau, Pol Lt Gen Peera Poompichet, visited the station for a briefing on the attack.
The bomb destroyed the car and damaged a pharmacy, food stalls, shops and vehicles nearby.
"Police have been overworked during the Songkran New Year holidays and everyone is tired, so this opened an opportunity for the separatists to attack us," said the station's superintendent Pol Col Poonsak Prasertmet.
A 40-year-old Muslim man was shot dead by suspected insurgents in neighbouring Narathiwat province on Tuesday evening, police said.
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