Feel good story of the day.

(Bangkok Post) – Two men believed to be members of the separatist Runda Kampulan Kecil movement were killed when their home-made bomb exploded prematurely near a military outpost in Narathiwat’s Rueso district early Tuesday morning, police said.

A joint military and police force led by Pol Col Sathanfa Wamasing, chief of Rueso police station, and Lt-Col Manit Paopngchan, chief of Narathiwat Special Task Force No. 30, inspected the scene of the explosion.

The found a bomb crater over a metre deep and nearly two metres wide  near a bridge in Ban Baluka of Moo 7 in tambon Samakkee.

They found the dead body of Sorahudin Dorloh, 30, about 20 metres from the crater.

Soldiers searched nearby area and found the dead body of Abas Abu about 400 metres away.

Villagers told police that three suspicious-looking men on two motorcycles arrived at the bridge about 12.30am. Two of them were planting the what police said was a 5kg bomb at the foot of the tree near the bridge when the it went off, killing them both.

Sorahudin died instantly, Abas was dragged away by the third militant, who then fled  after he realised Abas was also dead.

Police believed the militants intended their bomb to kill the soldiers on teacher escort duty who patrol the local road in the morning.