Two Buddhist rubber plantation workers were killed and a senior police officer was critically wounded in suspected insurgent attacks in Thailand's Muslim-majority far south, officials said on Wednesday.
Suspected separatists shot the workers in Narathiwat province late on Tuesday and decapitated one of them, a police officer said in the largely ethnic Malay region, a sultanate until annexed by Thailand a century ago. "The two were cutting rubber trees when they were hit by a shotgun. One of them had his head cut off and it is still missing," Police Colonel Saravud Netrsawang told Reuters from Narathiwat's Srisakorn District. |