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2 killed in Thai south
 THAILAND'S restive south was hit by fresh bomb blasts and shootings that left two people dead and 16 injured, police said on Friday. They said suspected separatist militants shot dead a 29-year-old policeman in Narathiwat province and a 36-year-old Muslim deputy village chief in neighbouring Yala province late on Thursday. On Friday nine soldiers were wounded, two seriously, when their army truck was hit by a roadside bomb during a routine patrol in Yala. It was the fourth bomb attack to be blamed on southern militants in two days. Two army rangers were also injured in a separate bombing in Narathiwat on Friday. On Thursday three people including a policeman on foot patrol were injured in an explosion in Yala town, while two soldiers were hit by a blast in Narathiwat. More than 3,600 people have been killed and thousands more injured in five years of separatist violence in the Muslim-majority provinces near the Malaysian border. Buddhist-majority Thailand annexed the mainly Muslim, ethnic Malay area in 1902, sparking decades of tension and mistrust. Posted by: Fred 2009-03-28 |
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