Four soldiers were killed in an ambush late yesterday evening in Pattani, not far from a busy market they and fellow patrol members were stationed to provide security for shoppers.

All individual weapons and one side arm belonged to them were snatched by a team of insurgents, who disguised in civilian clothes as local shoppers, before they approached the victims and opened fire on them. A team of soldiers stationed nearby arrived at the scene to help, but the gunmen fled on two pickup trucks.

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