YALA, Feb 4 — One soldier assigned to a teacher protection unit was killed and two others were wounded in a roadside bombing in Yala on Friday, and three Thai Buddhist local residents were wounded in a shooting attack in the insurgency-plagued province of Pattani.

Three soldiers were wounded as they were on foot patrol escorting teachers in Yala’s Raman district

Cpl Padungpong Song-archin, 25, was severely wounded and was later pronounced dead on the way to Raman Hospital.

Meanwhile, Defence Volunteer Noppadol Meeboon, 28, received shrapnel wounds on his back and torso, and defence volunteer Chaiporn Photaret, 26, had constricted breathing and continued ringing in his ears afterward.

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