A Muslim village chief was shot dead as he entered a mosque and two soldiers were killed in an ambush by The village leader was shot four times by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle as he entered the mosque for morning prayers in Pattani, police said. That was followed a few hours later by an ambush on an army patrol in Narathiwat, in which two soldiers were killed and another was wounded. Militants detonated a roadside bomb, which killed the two troops, and shot another in the five-minute gunfight that followed. The rebels escaped.
A Buddhist man was gunned down outside his motorcycle repair shop in Pattani on Thursday, police said. A bomb left next to his body was detonated as investigators arrived, but no one was hurt. A Buddhist defence volunteer and a female Burmese migrant worker were also killed by gunmen on motorcycles earlier this week. Police blamed Muslim