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Two more Buddhists killed in Thai Muslim south BANGKOK, Thursday (Reuters) Two more Thai Buddhists were killed in southern Thailand, police said on Thursday, as outrage mounted over the death last week of 85 Muslims, many in military custody. Police Major Kraw Kosaikanon, 55, was shot in the head on Thursday morning at his family grocery store in Yala province by a militant posing as a customer, officials said. In a separate incident late on Wednesday, a father and son were ambushed on a road near their home in the southern province of Narathiwat, where 85 Muslim protesters died last week, 78 of them suffocation in army custody. The father died at the scene but his son survived with shotgun wounds to his hand, police said. Around 450 people have died in a 10-month wave of violence that erupted in January when militants stormed an army camp in Thailand's remote south bordering Malaysia, killing four soldiers and making off with several hundred assault rifles. Last week's tragedy, which Muslims have branded a "massacre", unleashed outrage and grisly reprisals, including the beheading of a Buddhist village leader, a grim echo of the decapitation of hostages by militants in Iraq. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra appears at a loss to control the unrest, which is looking increasingly like a Muslim separatist insurgency in a region with a history of often violent opposition to rule from mainly Buddhist Bangkok. In a sign the almost daily shootings or explosions are starting to raise the political temperature in the capital, two senators came to blows on Wednesday as another reported on a fact-finding trip to the scene of last week's tragedy. |
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