BANGKOK, Nov 6 — Suspected separatist insurgents stormed a security checkpoint in Thailand's Muslim-majority south and killed at least 15 people, including a police officer and many village defence volunteers, security officials said today. It was the worst single attack in years in a region...
The body of a person killed in an attack by suspected Muslim militants is brought to a hospital in Yala province November 6, 2019. — AFP pic
It was the worst single attack in years in a region where a Muslim separatist insurgency has killed thousands. “This is likely the work of the insurgents,” Colonel Pramote Prom-in, a regional security spokesman, told Reuters.There was no immediate claim of responsibility, however, as is common with such attacks.
The population of the provinces, which belonged to an independent Malay Muslim sultanate before Thailand annexed them in 1909, is 80 per cent Muslim, while the rest of the country is overwhelmingly Buddhist.Authorities arrested several suspects from the region in August over a series of small bombs detonated in Bangkok, the capital, although they have not directly blamed any insurgent group.
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