Six killed in Thailand's restive south
Afp, Yala, Thailand
Six people, including two Muslim children, have been killed by suspected Islamic rebels in separate attacks in Thailand's violence-torn south, police said yesterday. A 40-year-old Muslim man was gunned down yesterday in a drive-by shooting while riding a motorcycle in Yala, one of three Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia. A group of militants also ambushed a motorcycle in Yala late Friday and shot dead a 45-year-old Muslim man and his two children -- an 11-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy. Also in Yala, a 37-year-old Muslim man was hacked to death by militants in public view at a market late Friday, while police found the body of a man in a river in the province. Police suspected the man was a victim of Thailand's three-year insurgency. Police said several hundred Muslim women and children also blocked a highway in Yala yesterday as they continued their sit-in for a third consecutive day to demand authorities release suspected militants. Some 20 kilometres (12 miles) away from the sit-in, hundreds of Buddhists also took to the streets, demanding the Muslims end the road blockade.
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