Pattani motorcycle bomb injures 5 police officers

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PUBLISHED: 14 Nov 2024 at 17: 39

A six-wheel truck carrying five border patrol police was damaged when a motorcycle bomb went off on a bridge in Yaring district of Pattani on Thursday afternoon. The five officers were injured. (Photo supplied/Abdullah Benjakat)
A scooter bomb went off on a gate in the Yaring city of Pattani on Thursday evening, damaging a six-wheel vehicle carrying five frontier police officers. The five soldiers were injured. ( Photo supplied/Abdullah Benjakat )

In the southern province of Yaring, a bicycle bomb went off as their vehicle drove over a gate, injuring five border patrol officers on Thursday evening.

The weapon, which was hidden in the motorcycle on the Tanyong Dalor gate in the Yaring area, detonated when the 446th border patrol unit’s five officers passed the six-wheel vehicle, according to Pol Col Theerapot Yindee, the Yaring authorities station’s chief, who was called at 2.40pm.

All five officers officers were hurt by the explosion’s power.

Pol Snr Sgt Maj Preecha Khotnane, the driver of the vehicle, suffered debris wounds to his head and face. The four people, Pol Lt. Winai Chaichanasongkhram, Pol Snr. Maj. Anon Laemae, Pol Cpl. Kittiphum Morakot, and Pol Cpl. Muhammad Musordee, experienced neck pain and ringing in their ovaries. They were all taken to Yaring clinics.

According to police investigators, the attack may have been connected to the continuing unrest in the southern region.

A motorcycle bomb explodes on Tanyong Dalor bridge in Yaring district, Pattani.

On Thursday afternoon in the Yaring city of Pattani, the motorcycle bomb’s wreckage can be seen on the Tanyong Dalor gate. ( Photo supplied/Abdullah Benjakat )