Three people, among them a policeman, were killed in Thailand’s troubled southern region today in attacks blamed on Muslim separatists, police said.
A man and his wife were shot dead while riding a motorcycle to work in a rubber plantation in Yala, one of the three predominantly ethnic Malay Muslim provinces with a deep history of rebellion to the rule of faraway Bangkok.
In a separate attack in neighbouring Pattani province, a policeman was fatally shot by unknown gunmen while travelling to work. He later died in hospital, police told reporters.
More than 4,000 people have been killed in the last six years in the rubber-rich region bordering Malaysia, which was a Muslim sultanate until annexed in 1909 by Buddhist Thailand, which many locals say has long treated them like second-class citizens.
The shadowy rebels are assumed to be separatists and often target Buddhists and Muslims associated with the Thai state, like police, soldiers, government officials and school teachers.
No credible group has claimed responsibility for the violence, or stated any demands and at least 30,000 troops based in the region have made little inroads towards quelling the unrest or identifying those leading the rebellion
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