Suspected Friday's killings in Yala came a day after five paramilitary rangers were gunned down in an ambush in Pattani province after the pickup truck they were riding in was hit by a bomb.
Three soldiers wounded by roadside bomb
Three soldiers were wounded when a home-made bomb exploded on a local road in Narathiwat province on Thursday night.
The device exploded about 10 p.m. as six soldiers were walking from their outpost to set up a security check-point in the village. It had been hidden under some banana trees and blew up as the soldiers were passing, injuring three of them.
Gunmen then opened fire on the soldiers' outpost. The two sides exchanged gunfire for about 10 minutes before the attackers fled. Police later found more than 100 spent cartridges from M16 and AK47 assault rifles at the scene.
They blamed separatist
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