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"Insurgents behead rubber tapper"
Bangkok Post ^ | -Tuesday 07 June 2005 | POST REPORTERS

Posted on 06/06/2005 1:53:16 PM PDT by JimSEA

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A rubber tapper was beheaded at a plantation in Yala and five people, including three policemen, were wounded in a bomb blast in Narathiwat yesterday as daily violence continued in the deep South.

The headless body of Bunchan Saipetch, 59, from Si Sa Ket, was found in front of a cottage in a rubber plantation in Yala's Yaha district around 6am yesterday. Six 11mm bullet shells were found at the scene while there were multiple knife wounds to the victim's body.

His head was found later in a box left on a roadside in the same area. Attached to the box was a handwritten letter written in Thai saying: ``We will get back our Pattani state. As you arrest the innocent, we will kill the innocent.''

Police believed Bunchan, who was hired to collect latex in the plantation, was shot before being beheaded.

Earlier, a home-made bomb tied to a power pole went off around 9pm on Sunday in Yaha district, causing an electricity blackout in municipal areas for more than an hour. The force of the explosion brought down two power transmission lines. Damage was estimated at almost two million baht.

On the same day, assailants ambushed a police checkpoint in Yaha district. Police returned fire. After a brief gunfight, the assailants fled. Nobody was injured.

Metal spikes were also found scattered on Yaha-Patae road to prevent police from chasing the assailants. A large tree was cut down to block the route and car tyres burnt at several points along the road.

Separatist messages were spray-painted on roads, bridges and billboards in the area, according to police.

In Narathiwat, a bomb attached to a motorcycle went off at a public park in Sungai Kolok district, wounding three policemen and two joggers.

The bomb, believed to have been triggered by a mobile phone, exploded around 7am at Sirindhorn public park. The motorcycle to which the bomb was tied to caught fire. Nails, pieces of metal and a SIM card were found at the scene.

The injured victims were identified as Pol Lt-Col Vej Suwannarat, 57, a police inspector attached to Sungai Kolok police station; Pol Cpl Banchong Soonsuwan, 30; Pol L/C Nikhom Tanliam, 25; Thaweesak Panprasong, 63; and his wife Mrs Pannee, 61."