On 6 November 2019, fifteen people were killed and another five injured in an attack on a security checkpoint in Yala Province,

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. Among the dead and injured were a police officer and many village defense volunteers. A total of ten men and five women died in the attack, making it the largest loss of village defense forces in a single attack during the

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. The attack resulted in the looting of eight guns that the victims possessed, including one

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, two

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, and five

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. To disrupt the efforts of the officers tracking them, the attackers had sprinkled tire spikes, cut down trees, and burned

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on roads during the attack.

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