Southern insurgency: Ranger shot dead in Songkhla house
FILE PHOTO: The latest shooting in a spate of recent violence in the southern provinces – The Nation
A ranger based in Yala has been shot dead at his home in Songkhla’s Muang district.
Pol Capt Adirek Burintrapibal, the deputy inspector of Muang Songkhla police station, was alerted at 8.30pm last night of the shooting at a house in Moo 10 village in Tambon Pawong.
The Nation reports that 43 year old Charoen Moraphan died when a bullet hit him in the left side of his chest.
His wife, Khiew, says she was at the back of the house while Charoen was watching TV in the living room facing towards the front door. She says her husband was on leave from his Yala ranger base for two weeks.
Police claim a gunman inserted a gun barrel through the front door and opened fire at Charoen, hitting him once in the chest.
Police are yet to identify the motive for the killing, the latest in a spate of violence in the southern provinces.
