Buddhist tapper beheaded in Thai Muslim south
Pastor Dale Morgan
*Buddhist tapper beheaded in Thai Muslim south*
07 Mar 2007 03:23:25 GMT
Source: Reuters
YALA, Thailand, March 7 (Reuters) - A Buddhist rubber tapper was
beheaded and his body set ablaze in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south
on Wednesday, police said. The head of the 58-year-old man found near a
Muslim religious school 1 kilometre (mile) from his body and his
motorcycle, which were torched on a small road in Yala, one of the three
violence-plagued far south provinces, police said.
"His headless body was still on the motorcycle when we arrived the scene
this morning," police Lieutenant Colonel Jirasit Lormae told Reuters by
telephone.
Two hours later, militants detonated a roadside bomb as police and
soldiers were leaving the scene, wounding two policemen, Jirasit said.
In nearby Pattani province, two men on a motorcycle attacked a Buddhist
family riding on a motorcycle to work, killing the father and wounding
the mother and their four-year-old daughter, police said.
They were the latest victims in three years of separatist violence which
has claimed more than 2,000 lives in a region where most people are
ethnic Malay and Muslim. Thailand is overwhelmingly Buddhist.