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The Army spokesman said 80 percent of areas in the south where Muslim insurgent groups are active are under government control. The interior minister said the situation in the southern provinces has greatly improved and the violence has decreased to a “nearly normal” level.

Seven Muslim insurgents were killed and four soldiers were wounded in a series of clashes in the southern province of Yala. Train service in the South has been suspended after terrorists boarded trains and murdered three railway workers and a policeman on June 21.

Four Rangers were wounded in an IED attack in Pattani province. Two soldiers were wounded in a separate IED attack in Pattani. A former solider was killed in a shooting in Narathiwat province. A Muslim man was killed in a shooting at a rubber plantation in Yala province.

One Thai was killed and four were wounded in a motorcycle bombing outside the Yala Red Crescent Fair in Yala province. Two policemen were wounded after Muslim terrorists detonated an IED as they escorted teachers to a school in Pattani province.

Four suspected Islamic insurgents were killed in clashes with security forces in Thailand’s rebellious southern Yala province. Earlier, two soldiers were killed when a car collided with a truck that had been hijacked by a suspected insurgent in Yala. A roadside bomb left four soldiers seriously injured in southern Pattani province.

Five soldiers and policemen were wounded in a series of bombings and shooting in Yala and Pattani provinces in the insurgency-plagued South. Police killed one Muslim terrorist and wounded two after a gunfight broke out during a raid in Yala province. Three police were wounded.

Twelve civilians were wounded in a bombing at a Red Crescent fair in Narathiwat province. Muslim terrorists also burned down two schools and shut down transformers during attacks in Pattani province.

Muslim insurgents killed five construction workers as they were building a fence at a school in Pattani province. Two police were wounded in a bomb attack as they patrolled a rail line in Narathiwat province.

Thirteen people were wounded in a bombing at a market in Yala province. Two policemen were killed and two wounded in an ambush in Narathiwat province. A member of a local security force and a Muslim terrorist were killed in separate incidents in the South.

Muslim terrorists shot and decapitated a manager of a shrimp farm in Pattani province; two police were wounded in an IED attack as they went to the scene murder. One soldier was killed in Yala province and two local defense volunteers were killed in Pattani. A policeman was killed in a bombing as captured “key” […]

The Pattani United Liberation Organization, a Muslim separatist group, supports negotiations with the government. “PULO has no wish to perpetuate violence and is willing to listen to proposals from the Royal Thai Government to build confidence, reduce violence and eventually agree on a lasting solution to the conflict,” according to a statement signed by the […]