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Southeast Asia
11 killed in southern Thailand attacks on Wednesday
2007-08-02
Rebels staged an ambush and set off bombs across southern Thailand in violence Wednesday that left 11 people dead, including two soldiers and five suspected Muslim terrorists insurgents, police said.

Five suspected Muslim terrorists insurgents were shot dead in a gunbattle with Thai soldiers in a violence-wracked region of Yala Province, said police Lt. Sompien Eksomya. Attackers opened fire on a unit of soldiers on a search operation in the Bannang Sata district where Muslim terror insurgency has been particularly active, he said. No soldiers were hurt in the hour-long firefight.

The fighting occurred after soldiers surrounded a neighborhood in the district in a house-to-house search for suspected terrorists insurgents involved in a bombing that killed seven soldiers in June, Sompien said. "They were acting on a tip-off that these terrorists insurgents have been hiding in the village," said Sompien.

In separate violence in Yala, terrorists insurgents shot at troops guarding a railway line, killing two soldiers, said provincial police chief Col. Narasak Chiengsuk.

Also Wednesday, at least three assailants sprayed dozens of bullets into a house in Narathiwat province, killing two men, said police Lt. Vorapong Klomsakun. In the same province, one person was killed and six injured when a bomb exploded near a market, police said. Police said it was one of six bombs that exploded in several areas of Narathiwat Wednesday morning.

Later Wednesday, a bomb went off at a police booth in Songkhla province, killing one policeman and wounding nine others.
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