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BOMB BLASTS Troops sent to border






February 8, 1999  
BOMB BLASTS
Troops sent to border
Tak
Over 100 soldiers have been dispatched to the Thai-Burmese border in Mae Ramat
district here following a spate of bomb blasts in which a border patrol police
officer was killed and several officials seriously wounded.
The team, comprising infantrymen, bomb demolition police and border patrol
police, left for Ban Huay Bong in Tambon Mae Jarao early yesterday morning to
search for bombs and prevent armed foreign groups from planting new ones on
Thai territory, said a border source.
During the bomb search, two sets of home-made grenades and several rounds of
spent mortar shells were found at the site, about five kilometres from the
border. 
On Saturday, a border patrol police officer was killed and four other
policemen
seriously wounded while they were patrolling the border area in Mae Ramat
district.
Last week, two policemen sustained serious injuries when a bomb planted in a
farm tractor exploded in Ban Huay Bong.
Col Chayuti Boonparn, commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment Task Force,
believe Burmese forces might be involved in the bomb attacks.
Thailand would send a protest letter to Burma if it obtained evidence showing
the attacks were the work of Burmese government troops or Karen rebels. 
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