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Southeast Asia
Couple shot and burned in Thailand's deep South
2008-07-08
Suspected Islamic terrorists separatists on Tuesday shot dead a couple and burned their bodies on the roadside in the latest atrocity to hit Thailand's troubled, majority-Muslim deep South.

Thai-Buddhists Chachawan Sonkamnong and his wife Amphai were shot dead in an ambush in Mayo district of Pattani province, about 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, as they drove a motorcycle to work in a rubber plantation, police said. Their 14-year-old son, Suphot, who was also on the motorcycle, managed to flee the assailants. The perpetrators, believed to be Muslim terrorists militants, doused the dead couple with kerosine and burned their bodies on the roadside. 'We believe the assailants were people from the area bent on scaring the local population,' said Major General Thawatchai Samusakorn.

On Monday in Nong Chik district, also in Pattani, assailants attacked a military truck escorting children to school, killing two soldiers. Three children were injured when their school bus crashed after the attack.
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