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A 10-year-old and a three-year-old were hurt in the attack, described as a ‘serious threat to national security’ and undermining peace
Five Thai security personnel were killed and six civilians, including two young children, injured in an attack in Thailand’s south, the military said yesterday.About 10 assailants dressed in black and wearing black brimmed hats arrived in a pickup truck and on motorcycles before launching an attack on a roadside checkpoint in Narathiwat Province late on Wednesday using firearms and pipe bombs, the Thai military’s Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 said in a statement.Five paramilitary rangers were killed in the attack and six civilians were wounded, including a three-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, the command said.
An image taken from video shows a group of alleged attackers riding in the back of a black vehicle at a security checkpoint in Thailand’s Narathiwat Province on Wednesday.
Authorities said the attackers seized three AK-47 rifles, three bulletproof vests and several mobile phones from the checkpoint before fleeing.Security forces later found the pickup truck used in the assault abandoned and set ablaze about 21km from the scene.
