YALA: A suspected insurgent wanted in connection with last week’s lethal bomb attack in this southern province was killed in a shootout with security forces in Than Tho district on Tuesday morning.
Police, soldiers and local officials surrounded Reh village Moo 1 in tambon Banreh, Than Tho district, around 4.30am on Tuesday, acting on a tip-off a suspect in a recent bomb attack was hiding in a house there.
They asked local leaders and Islamic leaders to help persuade the person in the house to surrender. Negotiations were not…