| Gunmen killed a policeman and a villager and a bomb wounded three police officers in Thailand’s Muslim south on Saturday where the government has vowed to crack down on suspected militants blamed for months of unrest. Unidentified assailants armed with M-16 automatic rifles shot Muslim policeman Aran Santakor, 31, as he walked to work in the province of Pattani on Saturday morning, said Major Waiyawit Nopparut at Muang district police station. In a separate incident in neighboring Yala province, four gunmen killed a Buddhist villager later on Saturday and then ambushed an army patrol sent to investigate the attack, slightly wounding three soldiers, police said. Earlier on Saturday, three policemen were wounded as they investigated an explosion that partly destroyed a rest house in a park in Yala province. "Three police officers who were inspecting the scene were injured when a second booby trap exploded five minutes later," Yala Governor Boonyasit Suwannarat said. |