A 45-year-old man and his wife, 39, were shot dead in an ambush early Saturday on their way to work at a rubber plantation in Pattani province.
On Sunday morning in the same province, a six-year-old boy and his parents, aged 42 and 50, were killed as they were travelling by motorcycle, police said. A bullet also grazed the couple's youngest son, aged five, on the head, and he was taken to hospital.