Militant Incidents in Thailand (July 2015)

1. Jul. 05 – Two local government officials were seriously injured when gunmen shot them as they were traveling home on a motorcycle after having visited a mosque in the Rangae district of the Narathiwat province. [BP]
2. Jul. 06 – A village chief was killed and his deputy was wounded when terrorists raked their car with gunfire in the Yala‘s Raman district. Two companions were also injured in the attack. [BP]
3. Jul. 08 – Three defense volunteers were wounded when their patrol was hit in a roadside bomb explosion in the Mayo district of the Pattani province. [BP & Nat]
4. Jul. 08 – A couple was seriously hurt when gunmen shot them as they rode a motorcycle in the Muang district of the Narathiwat province. [BP & Nat]
5. Jul. 08 – Three soldiers sustained injuries when a roadside bomb exploded as an army patrol passed by in Pattani‘s Khokpho district. [BP & Nat]
6. Jul. 09 – Gunmen shot and killed a police officer as he was returning home from a mosque on his motorcycle in the Srisakhon district of the Narathiwat province. [BP]
7. Jul. 10 – Assailants hurled small bombs at two restaurants in the town of Sungai Kolok, in the Narathiwat province. A bomb subsequently exploded in front of a hotel, injuring eight people. [BP & Nat]
8. Jul. 11 – Three people were killed when groups of terrorists set fire at three shops in the Sungai Kolok district of the Narathiwat province. [BP & Nat]
9. Jul. 11 – A group of assailants bombed and damaged eight electricity pylons in the Thanto district of the Yala province. No one was injured in the incident. [BP & Nat]
10. Jul. 11 – Three people were killed and three others were wounded when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in front of a karaoke bar in the Sadao district of the Songkhla province. [BP & Nat]
11. Jul. 13 – A schoolteacher was shot to death as he was riding home from work on his motorcycle in the Muang district of the Pattani province. [Nat]
12. Jul. 13 – Militants set off a roadside bomb as a group of teachers under paramilitary escort passed by in the Yaring district of the Pattani province. Two soldiers were wounded in the attack. [BP]
13. Jul. 14 – A roadside bomb went off as a paramilitary pickup truck passed by in Narathiwat‘s Johirong district. No one was hurt in the incident. [BP & Nat]
14. Jul. 14 – Four defense volunteers were wounded when their patrol was struck in a roadside bomb blast in the Sungai Padi district of the Narathiwat province. [BP]
15. Jul. 14 – A roadside bomb exploded as a paramilitary vehicle passed by in the Rangae district of the Narathiwat province, killing one soldier and injuring six colleagues. [BP & Nat]
16. Jul. 16 – Gunmen ambushed an army pickup truck in Narathiwat‘s Rueso district, killing two soldiers. The militants subsequently burnt the vehicle and the dead bodies. [BP & Nat]
17. Jul. 19 – A defense volunteer was shot to death by militants as he was traveling home from work on his motorcycle in the Johirong district of the Narathiwat province. [BP & Nat]
18. Jul. 25 – Militants detonated a bomb at the site where Buddhist monks were collecting alms at a market in the Saiburi district of the Pattani province. Two monks and a soldier were killed in the blast. Two other soldiers and three civilians were hurt in the incident. [BP & Nat]
19. Jul. 29 – A roadside bomb exploded as a police pickup truck passed by in the Johirong district of the Narathiwat province. Three policemen were hurt in the attack. [BP]
20. Jul. 31 – A group of militants attacked a defense volunteers’ outpost with gunfire and firebombs in Yala‘s Yaha district. Eighteen volunteers sustained injuries in the incident. [BP & Nat]

AFP: Agence France-Presse (France), AP: Associated Press (America), Ber: Bernama (Malaysia), BP: Bangkok Post (Thailand), CNN: Cable News Network (America), KS: Khao Sod (Thailand), MCOT: Mass Communication Organization of Thailand (Thailand), Nat: Nation (Thailand), Reut: Reuters (Britain), TPBS: Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thailand)