| Thai PM wants bomb-busting robots for restive south |
| By Manager Online |
19 July 2007 13:39 |
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July 18, 2007
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand will ask a group of prize-winning students to design a robot able to examine bombs in a bid to save lives in the restive Thai south, where fresh violence killed four people Wednesday.
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont told reporters that he would be seeking help from a Thai university team that won a contest in the World Robocup 2007, an international robot competition held in the US earlier this month.
His request came after a policeman was killed in a blast in Yala town on Tuesday. Security officials had approached the scene of an explosion when a second bomb hidden in a motorcycle went off, also injuring 19 people.
"I will invite the youths who won the award to discuss with the science ministry how we can use a robot equipped with a small camera to examine bombs," the army-installed premier said Wednesday.
"This is to save the lives of officials," he added.
The students won their award for designing a robot that can climb through disaster sites to search for signs of survivors. Surayud said a similar robot might help investigators examine bombs.
More than 2,400 people have been killed and thousands more injured in separatist violence that erupted in the south in January 2004.
In the latest violence, police said Wednesday three Muslims and one Buddhist man were killed in drive-by shootings and ambushes around the region.
The Muslim-majority region was an autonomous Malay sultanate until it was annexed a century ago by Buddhist Thailand.
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