Suspected insurgent killed in Yala clash

[News Bandit]

YALA, Aug 24 - One insurgent was killed in a clash with government security forces today in violence-plagued Yala province.

Thirty police officers on Friday morning raided a hut in a rubber plantation where they found five insurgent suspects armed with rifles.

The police identified themselves before conducting a search but the suspects fled and fired at the police.     

After a ten-minute exchange of gunfire, Abdullah Lachee, 30, was killed and another man, identified as Nuroding Leechiak, was wounded. The dead man had an M16 assault rifle in his hand.

The police found three firearms in the hut and sent them for checking as to  whether they were used in any previous insurgent attack.

The police believed that the group might be linked to a local drug gang. (MCOT online news)

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