Three people have been killed in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police have said, including two terrorists separatist insurgents who died in a shoot-out with authorities.
 Five terrorists militants in a pick-up truck opened fire on a police checkpoint in Narathiwat province near the Malaysian border on Sunday afternoon (local time), authorities said, injuring the three policemen on duty. The wounded officers managed to return fire, killing two of their attackers.
Also Sunday, a man was killed after being shot by suspected separatists who opened fire on him and his wife as they travelled to work at a rubber factory in Narathiwat. The man died in hospital, while the woman remains in a serious condition. |