Narathiwat bomb injures soldiers
Separatist rebels attacked a security patrol wounding eight soldiers with a bomb and gunfire in Narathiwat province, officials said on Monday.
The rebels have once again struck in the southern province of Narathiwat which has seen a heightened amount of violence of late.
The soldiers were on duty when they were ambushed while patrolling railway tracks in the Rueso district.
According to officials, the attackers set off the bomb via remote from a nearby orchard and proceeded to shoot at the soldiers with an M-16 rifle. Two officers were hit by gunfire before the assailants fled into the dense forest.
The wounded soldiers were sent to hospital for treatment.
The attack comes a week after 37 civilians were wounded in a bomb attack in Yala a week ago and a viscous attack on a Thai patrol in Narathiwat a week before that.