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| Thai terrorists gun down four civilians |
| 2008-11-12 |
| Suspected The 79-year-old woman and her 49-year-old son were shot dead in Pattani province on Tuesday evening while returning home from work, police said. The same evening a 33-year-old rubber tapper died in a drive-by shooting in Yala province, while elsewhere in the province a 28-year-old man was shot and killed, they said. Srisompob Jitpiromsri, director of the Pattani-based group Deep South Watch, said although the violence had fallen to its lowest level in five years in early October, it was now intensifying. On November 4 suspected militants detonated two bombs in a busy marketplace in Yala, wounding 74 people in one of the biggest assaults on civilians since early 2004, police said. "In the past the government has focused on its military operation and managed to suppress the |
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