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| Southeast Asia |
| Three Muslim villagers shot dead in Thai south |
| 2007-02-11 |
| Suspected separatists shot dead three Muslim villagers early on Sunday in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south, police said, the latest attack in a three-year insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed. The villagers were ambushed in Yala, one of three Muslim-majority provinces near Malaysia where most of the violence has taken place, while riding motorcycles to their rubber plantations, police told reporters. In a separate incident, a railway official was seriously wounded in a gun attack on a passenger train in neighbouring Narathiwat province, police said. The government will be seeking the cooperation of Kuala Lumpur to end the insurgency during a two-day visit by Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi starting on Monday. |
| Posted by:ryuge |