UPDATE: 3 die in Narathiwat attack

UPDATE: 3 die in Narathiwat attack

Three people were killed, including a toddler, and five others seriously injured, including another infant, when gunmen on a pickup truck sprayed bullets from AK47 and M16 assault rifles into a teashop in Narathiwat’s Rangae district on Tuesday morning, police said.

Pol Capt Boonsak Noomaad, duty officer at Rangae police station, said he received a report of the shooting about 7.13am.

He led a team of soldiers and police to the scene and found at least 40 spent cartridges from AK 47 and M16 assault rifles scattered in front of the teashop.

The security force was hunting for the fleeing attackers, believed to be members of a separatist group led by Amran Ming which has bewen responsible for much of the vilence in in tambon Bor-ngor of Rangae district.

The three dead victims were identified as Samueree Thoh, 32, Yameesi Jehdoh, 23, and an unidentified 11 month-old girl.

The seriously injured people are;

1) Sitee Rawhima Mamah, 70, mother of the teashop’s owner
2) Tuanma Tee-ngee, 61
3) Bisma Musor, 25
4) Pa-ngoh Rimae, 74, and
5) Muhammad Dalrishagimee Yaena, a 10 months old boy

They all were taken to Rangae hospital and later relocated to Narathiwat Ratchanakarin.

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