Army ranger shot dead in Thailand’s Deep South

A volunteer army ranger was shot dead at a grocery store in southern Thailand’s insurgency zone on Sunday.

Two assailants arrived at the store on a motorbike. One of them entered the shop and fatally shot 38 year old Ilfun Yuso while he was helping out at his wife’s grocery store in Pattani province before fleeing on the same bike.

Officers from Sai Buri Police Station travelled to the store in Manang Da Lam subdistrict at 8.30pm with soldiers and forensic officers.

Police collected fingerprint samples and bullet casings for forensic examination to see whether the assailants are linked to any criminal groups in the area. Witnesses were summoned to the station for questioning.

CCTV pictures the criminals before and after the crime and should help the police to track them down for prosecution, they said.

The deceased was a military ranger under the 4407th…