Bomb blast injures police on teacher-protection duty

The two policemen are rushed to Pattani Hospital after they were wounded by a roadside bomb explosion while protecting a route used by teachers travelling to school, in Nong Chik district of Pattani on Friday morning. (Photo by Abdullah Benjakat)

PATTANI: A bomb blast seriously injured two policemen on teacher-protection duty in Nong Chik district on Friday morning.

The bomb was detonated on the side of a road teachers use regularly to travel to school in Ban Tha Yalo of tambon Tuyong about 7.55am.

Pol Sen Sgt Maj Prasert Phewla-or and Pol Sen Sgt Maj Kittipan Aksornkaeo were part of the detail patrolling the route. They were taken to Pattani Hospital.

Security authorities blamed the attack on insurgents.