http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2005/06/07/headlines/index.php?news=headlines_17616643.htmlPublished on June 07, 2005
Suspected Islamic insurgents beheaded a Buddhist plantation worker yesterday and detonated a bomb that wounded three police officers and two bystanders in the latest in a series of terror acts that have gripped the Muslim-majority South for a year and a half.
The decapitated body of Boonjan Saiphet, 59, was found in a fruit orchard in Yala’s Yaha district early yesterday, while his head was placed in a box on the roadside apparently to attract the attention of pas-sers by, Police Major Suthas Nookhong said.
Boonjan’s severed head was accompanied by a note that said, “We want to get Pattani State back. You arrest innocents, we’ll kill innocents.”
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Yesterday’s incidents followed the shooting death on Sunday of three people, including a former village head and a civil servant, in the South, where more than 600 people have been killed in terror acts since January 2004.
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