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Border cop's wife slain in Pattani

Published: 10 Mar 2013 at 12.46
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The wife of a border patrol policeman was shot dead in Pattani's Mayo district while returning home from a market on Sunday morning.

Pol Col Kong-ath Suwankham, the Mayo police chief, said the incident took place at about 11am.

While Nipa Promphet, 52, was returning on a motorcycle to her home in tambon Talokapo in Yaring district she was followed by a group of men in a car on Narathiwat-Pattani road. One of the men shot her in the head with a pistol. When she fell to the ground, the man fired another shot into her body, killing her on the spot, before fleeing.

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dude
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Looks like Yingluck's soft Phue Thai approach in the South will have to be revised and the hard line stance from the Democrats being kept. A government which is serious with itself never negotiate with insurgents... it's a sign of weakness and a dangerous acknowledgment that the terrorists are "a legal counterpart to negotiate with"... Big brother from Dubai has skyped this new approach in his sister's ears!
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Insurgents killing at will. The Army and police have no solution. These are insurgents only. One really has to question Thailand's readiness in the event of war with a neighboring country. After many, many years, the insurgents cannot be brought under control despite ridiculously huge amounts of military budget being spent in the south.
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