Six deaths, five attacks in far South
6/10/2010

Six people have been killed in five separate attacks in the three southernmost border provinces since Tuesday night.



Police said on Wednesday four people were killed in two shootings in Pattani.

The first incident took place in Pattani's Sai Buri district on Tuesday night when a pick-up truck carrying three people from Songkhla was ambushed by gunmen. The pick-up was delivering about 400 chickens to villages in Pattani.

Police found 25 spent M-16 cartridges at the scene. All three people were shot dead and more than 100 chickens were killed. The pick-up was riddled with bullet holes.

Police blamed southern separatist militants.

Also in Pattani, former chairman of Tambon Sai Thong Administrative Organisation Ibraheng Jaetae was killed in front of his home, shot three times in the head by two men on motorcycle.

In Narathiwat, a remote-controlled bomb was detonated as soldiers passed by on Wednesday morning. Hidden gunmen then opened fire at the soldiers. A soldier was killed and another soldier seriously hurt.

Later in Narathiwat, about 10 people travelling on two pick-up trucks and two motorcycles passed through a security checkpoint in Rue So district and threw an improvised explosive device at six security volunteers.

They then fired at the volunteers with M-16 rifles.

They fled after a brief gunfight. No volunteers were injured.

Yala police said a Muslim man was killed in a drive by shooting in Yaha district this morning.

Abdul Rohman Korday, 33, was attacked by two men on a motorcycle while he was riding his motorcycle on Yala-Yaha road at Moo 3 in tambon Yaha of Yaha district. He died at the scene.

Police were investigating.

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