October 3, 201015 yr Rebels kill 3 troops in troubled Thai south: police YALA, October 3, 2010 (AFP) - Suspected Islamic insurgents killed three soldiers and wounded another four in a gun fight with security forces and an ambush in the restive Thai south, police said Sunday. A group of more than ten militants attacked six troops while they were patrolling in Yala province on Sunday morning, sparking a ten-minute gun fight in which two were killed and the other four were wounded. The insurgents escaped the scene, police said. On Saturday night in the same province, a soldier on foot patrol was shot during an ambush and later died in hospital. More than 4,300 people, both civilians and security personnel, have been killed in the troubled Muslim-majority southernmost provinces of Thailand since a separatist insurgency erupted more than six years ago. -- (c) Copyright AFP 2010-10-03
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