Three volunteer rangers and three residents, including two children, were slightly wounded in an explosion in Yala's Muang' district yesterday.
The incident occurred about 6.20 am when six rangers from Ranger Company 41 were travelling in a pickup truck on the Yala-Suan Som road in tambon Sateng Nok to buy food in the town. While passing the area, a bomb was detonated.
The explosion damaged the pick-up truck and wounded three rangers and three passes-by.
the wounded rangers were Vissanu Deetha, Sarawut Norkaew and Komsan Watha.The residents were Awae Kaso and five year-old boy Muslim Kaso.
The bomb, which weighed about 5 kg, left a hole about 60 cm wide and 20 cm deep in the road.
In Pattani, a placard carrying a warning of revenge against state authorities was found on a road in tambon Lipasa-ngo of Nong Chik district yesterday.
A police patrol team yesterday found a placard, believed to belong to insurgents,on the Yala-Pattani road. The placard read:"As long as state authorities arrest our innocent people,it is time for revenge attacks."
The officers were patrolling the area following Saturday's bomb blast in Nong Chik in which an army colonel was killed and five other soldiers wounded.
In Narathiwat, a combined 50-strong military and police force laid siege to a house in Rueso district of Narathiwat yesterday and arrested a former religious teacher suspected of involvement in a violent attack.
The operation yook place at 3.30 am at house No 59 in Village Group 4 of tambon Riang in Rueso district.
Wae-aseng Nilubi, 43, a former religious teacher at a private school in tambon Balo in Raman district of Yala province,was taken into custody.
He is suspected of being a member of a separatist group under Abdul Roheng Da-eso,alias Pele.He was also believed to be an information reporting the movement of government forces to the Runda Kumpalan Kecil (RKK) separatist movement and providing shelter for RKK members.
He was taken to the base of the 41st Ranger Regiment in Yala's Raman district for questioning under martial law.