Southern insurgents threw a pipe bomb at a road checkpoint in Muang district of Yala province Thursday night, causing damage to three cars. None of the officers or defence volunteers at the checkpoint, on the out-bound lane, were injured.
A car belonging to a police officer and two others, owned by villagers, sustained shrapnel damage. Reinforcements, led by Pol Maj-Gen Seksant Churangsarith, the provincial police superintendent, rushed to the scene to support the officers and to prevent further attacks, while an explosives ordnance disposal (EOD) team searched for more IEDs and collected bomb fragments for forensic analysis.
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Source: Thai PBS News
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