Muslim Terrorists Spark Violence in Thailand
In Thailand’s restive Muslim south, six people have been killed and five wounded in the most recent upsurge in violence blamed on separatist militants.
Reuters reports that, “the attacks, which involved drive-by shootings and bombings, took place late on Monday and on Tuesday and targeted both Muslims and the region’s minority Buddhists.”
A Buddhist couple, both teachers, was murdered by gunmen early on Tuesday in Rangae in Narathiwat province, while they were riding on motorcycles, cops said.
A few hours later in the same district, a Buddhist defense volunteer was gunned down and assassinated in another drive-by attack.
The shooting occurred two days after suspected ethnic Malay rebels torched government offices, shops, bus shelters and phone booths in simultaneous attacks in seven districts of Narathiwat that borders Malaysia.
