Three security officials killed, one injured in Yala

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Three security officials killed, one injured in Yala

PUBLISHED: 28 Apr 2025 at 15: 03

The bombed armoured truck in which two border patrol policemen were killed and a third severely injured in Than To district, Yala, on Monday morning. (Photo: Abdullah Benjakat)
The border police officer fatalities and second serious injuries were the result of an explosion-bombed armored truck in Yala’s Than To district on Monday morning. ( Photo: Abdullah Benjakat )

In two assaults in this southern frontier province on Monday night, a defense charity, two border police officers, and a second seriously injured person were killed in Yala.

Around 12.40am, the first attack occurred on Highway 410 ( Yala-Bannang Sata ) in the Bannang Sata district.

When a 34-year-old defense charity Theerawut Phuttharat left his car and entered the shop, about 300 meters from his surveillance system in Ban Tabing Tingngee in tambon Taling Chan, attackers opened fire on him.

He was instantly killed, and his vehicle was engulfed in flames.

A street bomb went off in the Than To area as a truck carrying three border police officers passed through Ban Tha Si Nam at around 9:30 am. The explosion caused a wreckage for the car, which was blown off the road.

Sgt. Maj. Isaret Intarapet, Panuwat Wechapasan, and Monpitak Petnui, both from Poland, suffered severe injuries.

Eventually, Sgt. Maj. Isaret and Sgt. Monpitak succumbed to their injuries.

The car of the shot defence volunteer was torched in the attack in Bannang Sata district, Yala, Monday morning. Abdullah Benjakat

Theerawut Phuttharat, a murdered defense volunteer, was killed in a destroyed car in the Bannang Sata district of Yala on Monday morning. ( Photo: Abdullah Benjakat )