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Southeast Asia
Five killed, two policemen severely injured in southern Thailand
2008-06-03
Suspected separatists killed five people in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police said Tuesday, as the death toll in the region soared to 3,300 in more than four years of violence.

A spree of shootings hit the far south on Monday evening, with two Muslim men in their 50s and a teenager killed in separate attacks across Narathiwat province, local police said. In nearby Pattani province the same night, a 45-year-old Buddhist man was shot dead, while in Yala province terrorists militants attacked a house, killing a 15-year-old Muslim boy and injuring his four-year-old sister.

Officials at Southern Police Headquarters on Tuesday reported that 475 people have been killed so far this year in violence related to the separatist insurgency.

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Two policemen were injured as terrorists insurgents triggered a roadside bomb on Tuesday in Thailand's southernmost province of Pattani. According to the report of The Nation news network, the police unit were on their way to camp after they escorted teachers to a school in Pattani's Mayo district when the bomb was triggered by mobile phone signal on Tuesday morning. Two policemen of the unit was severely injured and were rushed to a nearby hospital by a helicopter.
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