The government will impose a regular assessment of the work by all agencies responsible for containing violence in the deep South in a new bid to pressure them to improve their performances.
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A bomb disposal team inspects the remnants of a motorcycle used in abomb attack on the Pattani-Yala road in Pattani yesterday. One person was killed and three others, two of them soldiers, slightly injured in the attack.
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The results will be reported to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra every three months, said Deputy Prime Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa yesterday.
He said a clear timeframe for work needed to be set and an assessment was required at the end of the work, otherwise the same old problems would never be resolved.
Gen Yutthasak also believes that compensation for victims of violence is heading in the right direction as it will provide justice to victims and improve their relationship with government officials.
The government-appointed committee set up to compensate and rehabilitate people affected by violence in the deep South resolved last month to pay 7.5 million baht in compensation to each family of those killed during eight years of violence in Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and four districts of Songkhla province _ Chana, Na Thawi, Saba Yoi and Thepha.
The committee is chaired by Justice Minister Pol Gen Pracha Promnok.
Gen Yutthasak said he would be visiting the three southernmost provinces at least once or twice a month and evaluate progress every three months.
Meanwhile, one civilian was killed in a roadside motorcycle bomb attack that also injured a passer-by and two soldiers in Pattani's Muang district yesterday morning.
Paozee Zeede, 28, who sustained severe injuries to the head and body, died on the way to hospital.
Police were alerted about the incident that occurred on the Pattani-Yala road in Ban Kahong in tambon Baraho about 10.30am.
Abdulazi Pohoheele, a 19-year-old food vendor, was slightly injured by the explosion.
Pvt Krisada Saikaew, 23, and Pvt Doensai Thalai, 22, were also slightly injured. They were among eight soldiers from the Pattani 23 Special Task Force who were patrolling the road on a pickup truck when the bomb went off.
The motorcycle used to carry a metal box containing about 5kg of explosive and left by the roadside was believed to have been stolen.
The bomb, which was detonated remotely by a walkie-talkie, was apparently aimed at killing all eight of the soldiers.
In Narathiwat, a bomb was found fastened to a roadside electricity post between Ban Ku Jing Rue Pa and Ban Lubo Kayo in Rangae district.
Rangae police were alerted to the device at about 11am yesterday.
A bomb disposal team was called in to handle the bomb, which was found to comprise 20kg of explosives packed into a cooking gas cylinder. The bomb was also designed to be detonated with a walkie-talkie.
The bomb disposal team took about half an hour to defuse the device, which was believed to have been targeted at a military ranger force that patrols the route regularly. But the bomb was detected before the rangers arrived.