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Ten die in Thailand shootings
April 29, 2009, Wednesday
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SUSPECTED Muslim insurgents killed 10 civilians in a flurry of attacks in the insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, the army said yesterday, the fifth anniversary of a bloody assault by security forces against militants at a mosque.
In the deadliest incident, at least six gunmen in a pickup truck stormed into a house in Yala province late on Monday, opening fire on a Muslim family of five, army spokesman Colonel Parinya Chaidilok said. Four people, including a 16-year-old girl, were killed.
Parinya said two Muslim rubber plantation workers were later found dead in the compound of a nearby mosque. In another district of Yala province, suspected militants fatally shot a Buddhist rubber plantation worker yesterday.
Thai security officials blamed Islamic insurgents bent on stirring up communal tension between Buddhists and Muslims.
A Buddhist government official was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani yesterday, Parinya said.
In separate incidents on Monday, gunmen shot dead a Muslim defense volunteer while he was watching a football match and another Muslim man was killed in a drive-by shooting.
On April 28, 2004, 32 insurgents were killed in an assault on the Krue Se mosque by Thai security forces.
In the deadliest incident, at least six gunmen in a pickup truck stormed into a house in Yala province late on Monday, opening fire on a Muslim family of five, army spokesman Colonel Parinya Chaidilok said. Four people, including a 16-year-old girl, were killed.
Parinya said two Muslim rubber plantation workers were later found dead in the compound of a nearby mosque. In another district of Yala province, suspected militants fatally shot a Buddhist rubber plantation worker yesterday.
Thai security officials blamed Islamic insurgents bent on stirring up communal tension between Buddhists and Muslims.
A Buddhist government official was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani yesterday, Parinya said.
In separate incidents on Monday, gunmen shot dead a Muslim defense volunteer while he was watching a football match and another Muslim man was killed in a drive-by shooting.
On April 28, 2004, 32 insurgents were killed in an assault on the Krue Se mosque by Thai security forces.
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