An assistant village headman was shot dead, while the head of a Tambon Prik health promotion unit was seriously injured in an ambush yesterday in Songkhla’s Sadao district.

Assistant headman Songkran Chairit, 38, and health unit head Chamnan Suwannasri, 42, were driving in Songkran’s car in Tambon Prik around 12.15am yesterday, when unknown gunmen in a pick-up pursued them and opened fire with an M16 rifle.

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