Two killed, many injured in Thai south

By: Our Staff Reporter | February 25, 2009, 9:30 am |
Suspected militants have killed two civilians in the Thai south, while more than a dozen people including soldiers were injured in an upsurge in separatist violence, police said Wednesday. In troubled Yala province on Tuesday, a group of militants stormed a food shop and killed the 24-year-old owner, while three of his relatives were wounded by gunfire, police said. Elsewhere in Yala, a 41-year-old woman whom police said worked as a government informant was shot dead. In a spate of attacks on security forces the same day, two soldiers were injured by gunfire in an ambush by separatists in Yala, while in a nearby district a bomb and shooting attack wounded two army rangers.

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