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17 insurgents killed in Thai military base clash
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February 13, 2013, Wednesday
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AT least 17 insurgents were killed in their foiled assault on a military base in Thailand's restive south, a military spokesman said today.
The 20-minute exchange of fire between the marine troops and the suspected separatists occured at about 1:30 am in Bacho district of Narathiwat province.
Pramote Promin, spokesman of the Internal Security Operations Command's Fourth Region, told reporters that some 100 fully armed militants stormed the base where there were about 60 marine troops, but the latter was tipped off about the attack by defected militants.
Reportedly slain in the early hour clash was Jahmaso Jandravadi, known as a leader of separatist insurgents allegedly responsible for the killing of a noted teacher in the Deep South earlier this month.
No military casualties have been reported. "We were able to secure the camp. All of our force are safe," he said.
The attack was one of the most ambitious in several years of violence in Thailand's deep south, he said. Since January 2004, more than 5,000 people have been killed and some 9,000 hurt in over 11,000 incidents in Thailand's three southern provinces bordering Malaysia-- Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and four districts of Songkhla.
The violence has been escalating lately with a string of deadly attacks last weekend that claimed lives of five soldiers and two civilians. The government is mulling a proposal by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung to impose night curfew in some parts of the deep south. But it was opposed by many local leaders who say it is ineffective and will cause unnecessary inconvenience for residents.
The 20-minute exchange of fire between the marine troops and the suspected separatists occured at about 1:30 am in Bacho district of Narathiwat province.
Pramote Promin, spokesman of the Internal Security Operations Command's Fourth Region, told reporters that some 100 fully armed militants stormed the base where there were about 60 marine troops, but the latter was tipped off about the attack by defected militants.
Reportedly slain in the early hour clash was Jahmaso Jandravadi, known as a leader of separatist insurgents allegedly responsible for the killing of a noted teacher in the Deep South earlier this month.
No military casualties have been reported. "We were able to secure the camp. All of our force are safe," he said.
The attack was one of the most ambitious in several years of violence in Thailand's deep south, he said. Since January 2004, more than 5,000 people have been killed and some 9,000 hurt in over 11,000 incidents in Thailand's three southern provinces bordering Malaysia-- Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and four districts of Songkhla.
The violence has been escalating lately with a string of deadly attacks last weekend that claimed lives of five soldiers and two civilians. The government is mulling a proposal by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung to impose night curfew in some parts of the deep south. But it was opposed by many local leaders who say it is ineffective and will cause unnecessary inconvenience for residents.
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