Sunday 8 May 2011

2 killed, 1 wounded in Pattani shooting

married couple was killed and their son seriously injured in a drive-by shooting on Patani-Yala highway in Pattani’s Muang district on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Pol Col Somporn Meesuk, chief of Muang Pattani police station, said Sam Kaewkongthon, 65, his wife Penporn Paolohit, 57, and his son Wiroj, 27, were on their way home in Yala’s Muang district on a pickup truck from selling fruits in Pattani when four men on two motorcycles attacked them.

Two gunmen riding on pillions sprayed bullets from war weapons at them. The coupled were shot in their heads and bodied and their vehicle stooped. The gunmen came down from motorcycles and repeatedly shot them in front of the on looking villagers. The attackers then fled.

The couple died at the scene. Their son, shot in his back, was taken to Pattani hospital.

Police blamed separatist militants.

 

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