An assistant village headman was shot dead in an ambush in Bannang Sata district of Yala on Saturday morning, said Pol Col Suwat Wongpaibul, chief of Bannang Sata police station.

Museh Daleh, 46, assistant village chief of Ban Airrong, was parking his motorcycle in front of his rubber plantation in tambon Tanoh Puteh when gunmen hiding in the rubber forest fired at him.

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