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Southeast Asia
Three Thai troops gunned down in two separate attacks
2012-02-05
Gunmen killed two paramilitary troops as they escorted Buddhist monks on their morning alms route in southern Thailand, police said on Sunday. The victims, aged 37 and 42, died after attackers opened fire with assault rifles from the back of a pick-up truck, said police in the provincial town of Yala.

Local police deputy superintendent Lieutenant Colonel Sonthaya Toopthong said the attack could have been retaliation for the recent fatal shooting of Muslim civilians who were said to have been riding around with military weapons right after an attack on a local police station by paramilitaries in neighboring Pattani province. That incident at the end of January, in which four civilians including an elderly man and an 18-year-old boy died, sparked local protests and an official investigation.

In a separate incident on Saturday evening, another paramilitary, a Muslim, was gunned down in Pattani as he drove his pick-up truck.
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