Insurgents kill 22
NZPA-Reuter Bangkok
Communist insurgents killed 22 Thai Government soldiers last Saturday in an ambush in north Thailand, the worst such attack in the history of Thailand’s brushfire war, according to a military spokesman in Bangkok. Insurgents opened fire on a truck and a jeep carrying 26 officers and men on a back road in the Mae Charim district. Nan province, about 345 miles north of Bangkok. The troops were on their way to reinforce an outlying defence outpost reported to be under attack by insurgents.
The death toll made it the worst single loss of Government troops in more than a decade of counter-insurgency operations. Four other troopers were wounded in the ambush, Insurgent casualties were not known.
Insurgents are strong in Nan. which borders on Laos. The province is under martial law. and regular army units, border patrol policemen, and village defence volunteers report sporadic clashes with the insurgents.
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