RAMAN, Thailand, July 3 (UPI) -- An assistant village chief in a south Thailand province was killed by a roadside bomb, and six other people were injured in other bombings, officials said.
Lt. Issaraphan Surathip, the duty officer of Kotabaru police station, said Maromulee Eyuno, 49, an assistant to the chief in Bue Mang in the Raman district, was killed by the bomb, which was buried and detonated as his pickup truck rode over it, the Bangkok Post reported.
Maromulee had been returning home from a meeting in Raman district town to his village when the bomb, made of a gas cylinder, exploded.
A soldier was injured when a bomb exploded on a road near Ban Kuelong in tambon Talingchan of Bannang Sata district as a patrol vehicle from Infantry Company 7021 passed over it, the Post said.
Five other soldiers were wounded by a bomb that had been put in the front basket of a bicycle on a roadside near Ban Mo in tambon Lammai and was detonated when an army truck carrying soldiers passed, police said.
The five soldiers were wounded, two seriously, by shrapnel from the bomb, and the truck skidded off the road.
Deep South Watch, an agency that monitors the conflict in the southernmost provinces, said more than 5,000 people have been killed and more than 8,400 injured in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since an outbreak of violence in January 2004.
