Suspected bomb maker killed by security forces in Yala

Members of the combined security team ouside the house in Yala's Than Tho district on Tuesday morning where a wanted insurgent bomb maker was killed. (Photo supplied: Abdullah Benjakat)

YALA: A suspected insurgent wanted in connection with last week’s lethal bomb attack in this southern province was killed in a shootout with security forces in Than Tho district on Tuesday morning.

Relatives later confronted police, refusing to allow them to take away the man's body and ultimately snatching it from a rescue vehicle and taking it for religious rites at the man's own house.