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Three EOD squad members blown up defusing militant bomb

Explosive ordnance disposal officers carry the injured members of their squad away from the scene of the explosion, in Chana district, Songkhla, on Friday morning. (Photo supplied/ Assawin Pakkawan)

SONGKHLA: Three explosive ordnance disposal officers were injured by a bomb blast on Friday morning while working in an area where a villager had his leg blown off by a buried bomb when going fishing on Thursday evening.

One member of the bomb squad was reported have lost both his legs and another to have serious eye injuries. The third suffered chest pains.

Earlier reports said only that two EOD men were injured.

The explosion was not far from the mosque where three militants were killed by soldiers on Thursday morning.

The bomb squad, guarded by soldiers and police, were working near a railway bridge in…

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