Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists detonated two bombs in the violence-wracked province of Narathiwat on Tuesday, killing a woman and injuring 71 other people, police and hospital sources said.

The two separate bombs, planted in motorcycles, exploded outside a district office and a fruit market shortly after 11 am (0400 GMT) in Sukhirin district of Narathiwat province, 850 kilometres south of Bangkok, near the Thai-Malaysian border.

The explosion took place while village leaders from the area where about to enter the Sukhirin district office for a meeting, police said.

One woman was killed in the explosion. Of the 71 wounded, 30 were hospitalized with serious injuries, hospital sources said.

Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim militants killed five civilians and injured six in two attacks in Thailand's troubled deep South, police said Tuesday.

Six men on motorcycles, believed to be separatist insurgents, opened fire with M-16 rifles on a house Monday night in the Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, slaying three Thai Muslims, police said.

On the same night in nearby Narathiwat, assailants attacked a pickup on the outskirts of the city, killing two Thai Muslim men and injuring six others travelling in the vehicle.

Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim militants decapitated a village administrator Tuesday in Thailand's troubled deep South, police said.

Four men on motorcycles, believed to be separatist insurgents, chased Athaphon Konlom, 45, while he was driving his pickup on a back road in Sadawa village in Yarang district, 760 kilometres south of Bangkok, firing on the former police officer with automatic weapons, Police Colonel Poonsak Pasertmek said.

Pattani, Thailand  - A bomb killed two people, including a journalist, and injured 30 in a Thai-Malaysian border town in the latest act of violence in Thailand's majority-Muslim deep South, police said Friday.

The bomb was detonated about 9 pm Thursday in Sungai Kolok, 850 kilometres south of Bangkok, after Thai journalists and police had gathered at the scene of an earlier, smaller roadside explosion.

Killed in the blast was a reporter for the Thai Rath newspaper. The second victim, a villager, died in hospital Friday morning, police said.

Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists decapitated a 60-year-old Thai-Muslim man in Thailand's violence-wracked province of Pattani, police said Saturday.

Madu Ramae, a rubber plantation labourer, was stabbed to death and then decapitated Friday night in the Yarang district of Pattani, about 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, police said.

His head was found 5 metres away from his body.

Pattani, Thailand - Claims that Thailand's decades-old southern separatist struggle - which has claimed about 2,700 lives over the past four years - was over were dismissed Friday as a hoax or a f