YALA - A member of the RKK insurgent group was killed in a fight with a government security unit in Raman district early on Monday.
About 3am, a combined team of military and police led by Col Sithisak Jenbanchong, commander of the 41st Rangers Regiment, and Pol Col Puwanart Kaewnoy, the Raman police chief, laid siege to a house at Ban Atakhuwo in tambon Koto Tura. They had been told Koseng Niya, an RKK member, was hiding there.
Koseng, 40, was wanted under two arrest warrants in security-related cases.
While the authorities were negotiating with Muhamad Ruslan Kotabaru, 44, the house owner, for Koseng to surrender, Koseng jumped from a window of the house and opened fire as he made a bid to escape.
In the exchange of shots Koseng was killed. His body was found under the house. He was holding a 9mm handgun with eight bullets left in it.