May 2, 2008
YALA, Thailand - Three people were killed and nine others wounded in shooting and bomb attacks in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand, police and hospital workers said Friday.
Two Muslim men died in hospital after sustaining injuries in a bomb attack on a mosque while they were praying late Thursday in Nong Chik district of Pattani province, they said.
Eight other villagers were wounded in the attack, according to AFP.
Earlier Thursday, four suspected separatists shot dead a 34-year-old Buddhist defence volunteer in an ambush on his outpost in Nong Chik district, police said.
One of his colleagues was also wounded.
More than 3,000 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until mainly Buddhist
