 Two Thai police officers and a farmer have been shot dead in separate attacks by suspected Islamic militants in Thailand's troubled south, police say.
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Sergeant Raksiam Suthamwong, 42, and Corporal Panyakorn Snitpoot, 29, were killed in a food market in the Raman district of Yala, one of the three restive Muslim-majority southern provinces bordering Malaysia, police say. In a separate attack, suspected Islamic militants killed Toy Larnwong, a 47-year-old pig farmer, in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province, police say. Meanwhile, two Thai women and a Malaysian man were slightly injured early Saturday when a bomb exploded at a tea shop in Narathiwat province. |