Four persons were killed and five were wounded in separate attacks in two troubled southern Thai provinces by terrorists separatist militants, police said Saturday.
The authorities said the first incident erupted late Friday when armed ethnic Malay Muslim terrorists militants travelling by pick-up truck fired at security guards in a village of Yala's Raman district. Three security personnel were killed and three were wounded, police said, adding that several cars and a tea shop near the scene were damaged. The terrorists insurgents collected three pistols belonging to the dead victims before leaving the scene, police said.
In nearby Pattani province, a bomb weighing about five kilogrammes, planted by terrorists militants inside a karaoke lounge in Khok Pho district, was exploded by apparent remote control as police patrolled nearby. One police officer was killed and two others were seriously wounded, police said. |