 NARATHIWAT, Thailand -Two Thai Muslims including a village chief were shot dead by suspected Islamic militants in separate attacks on Thursday in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces, police said. One was shot three times early Thursday morning by two suspected militants as he rode his motorcycle to take morning tea. “It’s the work of militants because he was a village chief who was considered by militants as their target,” a police official said.
In the second attack, a rubber-tree tapper was shot dead by an unknown number of gunmen.
ThailandÂ’s south, where most of its minority Muslim population lives, has been hit by two years of unrest that has left more than 1,100 people dead in near-daily shootings, bombings and arson attacks. |