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PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN :The leader of a local conservation group protesting against a giant smelting plant narrowly escaped injury when a gunman fired at his house in Bang Saphan district yesterday.
Supoj Songseang, 40, said he heard a motorcycle stop in front of his house about 2am, and then the gunman opened fire.
He told the police he was working on the first floor, while his wife and their 14-year-old daughter were sleeping upstairs.
Only 15-20 minutes before the shooting occurred he had left his desk and lain down on a nearby sofa.
"I would be dead, had I sat at that desk a little longer," said the Mae Rampheung Conservation Group chairman, who has led the protest against Sahaviriya Group's 90-billion-baht smelter for more than two years.
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Two shot dead
PATTANI :Two villagers were shot dead and a soldier injured in separate attacks in the far South.
Sgt Chalermsak Samantong, 25, was wounded in the legs when rebels fired a grenade from a launcher into a military unit at Ban Porming school in Panare district yesterday.
He was among soldiers sent to the military unit at the school to look after students, teachers and villagers in the area.
On Saturday, two villagers in the same district were shot dead by two men on a motorcycle.
Mahama Duerama, 25, was shot while walking from a mosque in tambon Don, where he joined night prayers.
Minutes later, villager Ama Samaeng, 48, was shot as he was watching television at a security checkpoint, about 100 metres away from the first attack spot.
On Thursday, three men, claiming to be leaders of a rebel group, the Thailand United Southern Underground (TUSU), announced a ceasefire in a televised broadcast. Claiming to have 11 rebel groups under their control, they asked for 30 days to see results.
Four suspected rebels were arrested in a search of hideouts in 13 districts of Narathiwat in an operation involving about 1,000 soldiers, police and local officials.
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