YALA (Thailand) – Suspected Muslim insurgents shot dead three people in Thailand’s restive south on Saturday in two separate incidents, police said, the latest violence in the troubled region bordering Malaysia.

A soldier was gunned down in an ambush while riding a motorbike to a military base in Yala province. In neighbouring Pattani, a Buddhist couple was killed and their four-year-old nephew wounded inside a motorbike repair shop, police said.

Straits Times