The house of a former Thai MP and current advisor to the deputy prime minister on the far south was attacked with grenades on two consecutive nights this week.<br />Najmuddin Uma was asleep at his Rangae district home in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat when he was woken by two explosions just after 2 a.m. on Monday.<br /><br />Witnesses later reported seeing two men on a motorcycle fire grenades into the compound. Nobody was harmed in the attack but the explosions left large holes in the roof and ceiling and damaged car parked nearby.<br /><br />The second incident occurred just after midnight on Tuesday when a third grenade was fired. The round landed in a neighbour's property where the blast injured one occupant.<br /><br />The former politician's house was attacked the same manner in March last year, but police have made little progress in solving the case. <br /><br />Najmuddin Uma one of nine high-profile members of a Muslim faction in the governing Pheu Thai Party. It is believed the attacks were politically motivated.
