In this photo taken on May 7, 2021, bullet holes pock a house in Krong Pinang, a village in southern Thailand’s Yala province, where two insurgents spent the last hours of their lives before being killed during a standoff with government forces three days earlier. Don Pathan/BenarNews
Time was running out for the two separatist fighters – and they knew it.
Bullet holes riddled the corrugated metal wall of the house where they hunkered down during their final hours.
Dozens of Thai government security personnel had surrounded it after the men inside shot dead 27-year-old Nopparit Sukson, a member of the Thai paramilitary forces. His body lay meters away on a forested slope at the edge of Krong Pinang, a village in Yala, a province in Thailand’s troubled Deep South.
Two insurgents, ranger killed in clash
published : 5 May 2021 at 10:38 Members of the combined government force deployed to two villages in tambon Sa-e in Yala s Krong Pinang district, on Tuesday afternoon. One ranger and two insurgents were killed in the subsequent clash. (Photo: Abdullah Benjakat)
YALA: Two insurgents and a ranger were killed in a firefight between a government security force and armed militants in Krong Pinang district on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
A combined unit of civilians, police and soldiers moved into two villages, Batu Buela and Bae Chaeng, in tambon Sa-e, Krong Pinang district, about 3.40pm. They were acting on information that suspected insurgents wanted under court warrants were hiding out there.