IED

IED event in Narathiwat, Yi-Ngo area, Thailand on Sat 31st July 2021

31st July 2021

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On 31 July 2021, an explosive went off on the side of road no. 4058 near a local health center in Ton Tan village, tambon Cho Bo, Yi-Ngo district (Narathiwat), targeting an armored Isuzu pick-up truck carrying the district chief of Sukhirin and four members of the Volunteers Defense Corps. According to the investigation, the bomb was a radio-controlled improvised explosive device hidden in a gas tank, weighing approximately 20 kilograms, and was presumably planted the Malay Muslim separatists. The attack was suspected to be an assassination plot of a local administrative officer to commemorate the separatists' 'Soldier Day'. One volunteer was injured. No fatalities reported.

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Narathiwat ( Yi-Ngo area )

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