Published on July 16, 2005

The death toll from coordinated terrorist attacks in Yala on Thursday rose yesterday when a policeman died from his wounds.

Pol Corporal Santhat Nuallaong’s death increased to two the number of dead from the Yala attacks.

The first casualty was a fellow policeman who was killed in a shootout with terrorists at a police booth near a railway track.

Public Health Minister Suchai Charoenratanakul said yesterday said 23 people were taken to Yala Provincial Hospital for treatment following the attacks and sixteen had been treated and discharged.

Santhat, 33, died from his injuries at 3:20am, Suchai said. He had been shot in the chest, the bul?let severing a main artery and caus?ing massive blood loss.

Doctors had given him blood transfusions but were unable to stop the bleeding. He was put in inten?sive care where he later succumbed to his wounds.

Suchai said doctors were still concerned about one of the six injured people still in hospital and that they were monitoring the patient in the intensive care unit. The 26yearold man, whom Suchai did not identify, had fallen from the third floor of the Park View Hotel, breaking his legs and jaw, yet he avoided sustaining head injuries.

Doctors have set the man’s bro?ken legs, given him a blood trans?fusion and antibiotics.

Suchai said doctors, medical personnel and all necessary equip?ment in Yala had been put on roundtheclock standby.

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