Two soldiers and an assistant village chief were wounded in attacks in Narathiwat and Yala provinces on Thursday morning as a series of fires blamed on arsonists blazed up in apparently coordinated attacks in neighbouring Pattani.

In Narathiwat, militants detonated a home-made bomb while a pick-up truck with six soldiers on board was heading for Kuching Rupa village in tambon Chalerm of Rangae district on psy-ops duty.

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