Seven killed in Thailand's restive south
Afp, Yala
Seven people including two teenagers have been killed in the Thai south, police said yesterday, while 11 others were injured in a spate of bombings by suspected separatist rebels.Police yesterday found four bullet-riddled bodies in a house on a rubber plantation in yala, one of three Muslim-majority southern provinces. The victims, all Muslims, were a 56-year-old rubber tapper and his 21-year-old daughter, and two brothers aged 15 and 18, police said, adding they were unsure if the brothers were related to the father and daughter. Later yestersday, a roadside bomb slightly injured four policemen who were returning from the site of the multiple killings. Police said the body of a suspected militant was also found near the blast site, his head apparently blown off.
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