3 bomb squad officers killed in Thailand's south
Police say three bomb squad officers were killed while inspecting a suspicious item beside a road in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south. Police Col. Pakdee Preechachon said Monday that suspected insurgents detonated a bomb in a box when the squad arrived to check out a location where tires had been burned.
A second bomb was defused at the scene on a rural road in Bacho district in Narathiwat province. More than 5,000 people have been killed since an Islamic insurgency erupted in Thailand's three southernmost provinces in 2004. (AP)
