Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents on Friday ambushed and killed three Thai soldiers and wounded another on the 46th anniversary of the Pattani separatist movement.
Amid beefed-up security throughout the deep-South region, separatists ambushed a Thai military patrol in the Srisakorn district of Narathiwat province, 700 kilometres south of Bangkok, leaving three dead and one wounded after a ten minute gunbattle, said Army Colonel Mandate Shinawatra, deputy commander of the regional special task force.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Saturday shot dead two college students and burned their bodies in Thailand's violence-ridden, majority-Muslim southern province of Pattani, police said.
Brothers Hiran and Arun Sukmak were attacked as they drove a motorcycle from the Yaling district to Pattani city, where they were scheduled to take an exam at the provincial university, Yaling police said.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
Assailants gunned down Khomphet Janyalert, 39, and his wife Yinjai, 38, at 7 am as they were driving their motorcycle to work at a plantation in Raman district of Yala province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, police said.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
Assailants gunned down Khomphet Janyalert, 39, and his wife Yinjai, 38, at 7 am as they were driving their motorcycle to work at a plantation in Raman district of Yala province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, police said.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Friday shot and beheaded two Thai soldiers who were on a motorcycle patrol in the trouble-torn province of Yala in Thailand's majority-Muslim deep South.
The two soldiers, identified as Sergeant Major Samranmit Phicit, 27, and Private Piyasak Chookraithai, 27, were ambushed in the Bannang Sata district, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, after falling behind in a patrol of five motorcycles, police said.
Pattani, Thailand - A roadside bomb killed one paramilitary ranger and wounded five others Monday as they were patrolling a trouble-torn district in Narathiwat - part of Thailand's deep South, police said.
The remotely controlled 20-kilogram bomb exploded at about 10 am (0300 GMT) in Ruesoh district of Narathiwat, 800 kilometres south of Bangkok, as a pickup truck carrying a patrol of paramilitary troops passed by, said Ruesoh Police Sergeant Paosri Jaetae.
"We think influential people hired Muslim militants to do this in order to create chaos," said Paosri.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents on Friday ambushed and killed three Thai soldiers and wounded another on the 46th anniversary of the Pattani separatist movement.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Saturday shot dead two college students and burned their bodies in Thailand's violence-ridden, majority-Muslim southern province of Pattani, police said.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
