Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday ordered security agencies to provide better protection for officials and the public in the deep South, after a Yala deputy governor was killed in a roadside bombing by suspected insurgents.

Yingluck said that Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobamrung, who oversees security affairs in the region, had closely followed the situation in the region and would visit the southern provinces soon.

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