 Terrorists Separatist militants shot and killed three Muslim men in Thailand's south as violence intensified in the troubled region, police said on Friday. An unknown number of terrorists militants shot dead a 29-year-old man on Thursday night as he returned home from evening prayers at a mosque in Yala province, before dumping his body on a village road, they said. In the same province, terrorists separatists shot two Muslim males while they ate dinner - a 21-year-old who died at the scene and a 16-year-old who died later at a local hospital.
Thai security forces late on Thursday sealed off a village in Yala and shot dead four terrorists separatist militants.
Terrorists Insurgents in the Muslim-majority region have targeted both security forces and civilians - Buddhist and Muslim alike. Thailand's government is struggling to curb the recent surge in violence, which included a bloody attack on a mosque in which gunmen shot dead 11 people during evening prayers last week. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Sunday raised the possibility of making the south a special administrative zone as a political solution to the unrest but he ruled out granting any form of autonomy. |