Three men killed in Thailand's restive south
NARATHIWAT, Thailand, Friday (AFP) - Two men were shot dead by
suspected Islamic militants while a third man was killed in a separate
bomb blast in Thailand's Muslim-majority restive south, police said
Friday.
Supasilp Woh, a 22-year-old Muslim villager, was gunned down late
Thursday in the southern province of Narathiwat, police said.
In neighboring Pattani province, 62-year-old fish trader Parn Priklek
was killed after being shot three times at a market late Thursday.
Meanwhile, early Friday an unidentified man was killed in a bomb
blast at a mobile phone mast in Narathiwat, police said.
Some 200 militants set dozens of phone antennae towers ablaze
overnight in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, in attacks officials said
could be reprisals for government restrictions on cell phones in the
region.
The government in November required phone users in the south to
register their lines so that authorities could try to track phones that
militants adapt to use as triggers to detonate bombs in the region. |