A bomb killed three security volunteers in Thailand's south while terrorists militants shot dead three Muslim civilians as the region entered the holy month of Ramadan, police said Saturday.
Terrorists Suspected insurgents detonated the device as a group of officials heading to investigate an earlier blast in troubled Yala province on Saturday tried to move a felled tree blocking a road, they said. Three civilian security volunteers were killed instantly by the explosion and four were wounded, two of them volunteers and two interior ministry officials. The earlier bomb wounded two soldiers.
Also Saturday gunmen riding in a pick-up truck shot a 32-year-old government informant as he went with his family by motorcycle to a rubber plantation in neighbouring Narathiwat province, police said.
A Muslim man who had recently defected from the militants was shot dead in another drive-by attack in Narathiwat on Friday night, police said.
In Pattani province a Muslim deputy village chief was shot dead as he drove his motorcycle home from an evening market late Friday. |