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Southeast Asia
Four villagers gunned down in southern Thailand
2013-12-07
After suspected terrorists insurgents gunned down four villagers on Tuesday in Pattani province, police and local authorities yesterday continued to search for a missing villager who fled into a swamp.

Four suspected terrorists insurgents on two motorcycles opened fire on ten villagers traveling in a pick-up truck to the roadside mangrove forest to hunt for crabs to sell in the market.

Four villagers ran into the mangrove forest before being killed. The fifth man is still missing. Police said the attackers dragged the bodies of the dead victims onto the road before fleeing with their truck.

Police suspected the attack was a part of the ongoing insurgency in the region.

Pattani Governor Wittaya Panichpong called an urgent meeting and instructed village leaders and local residents near the scene of the attack to help locate the missing man. He said the search faced difficulties as the area was mangrove forest and it was raining.

Wittaya said the attack might be the terrorists' insurgents' retaliation for state officials' previous arrest of key terrorists insurgents.
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