Seven killed in Thailand's restive south
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.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. 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.