Five more killings in deep South

The two were flown by military helicopter to Hat Yai hospital for treatment.

Violence continue elsewhere in the restive region with a shooting in Narathiwat yesterday evening that killed two ethnic Malay residents in their 50s, while a teenager died in a separate attack in the province.

In Pattani, a 45-year-old Buddhist man was shot dead, while in Yala province militants attacked a house, killing a 15-year-old Muslim boy and injuring his four-year-old sister.

Officials at Southern Police Headquarters on Tuesday reported that 475 people had been killed so far this year in violence related to the separatist insurgency.

That raises the total number of people killed since the latest rebellion broke out in January 2004 to more than 3,300.

The Nation, Pattani