District chief survives ambush
Pillion-rider student struck by stray bullet
- Published: 5 Feb 2013 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
Gunmen ambushed the vehicle of the Mayo district chief in Pattani yesterday in the first attack on a high-ranking official in the restive South this year.
Soldiers provide protection as rice farmers in Pattani resume a scheme to revive abandoned rice fields. The rice farmers were growing rice without their trainers after two instructors were shot dead last week. PAREZ LOHASANT
District chief Pisarn Ar-wae and three defence volunteers, who were on a pickup truck, survived the attack unhurt.
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