Drive-by shootings kill 3 in Thailand

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Source: Associated Press

PATTANI, Thailand — Drive-by shootings blamed on Muslim rebels killed three civilians in southern Thailand, where an insurgency has left thousands dead in the past five years, an army spokesman said Monday.

Two assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed a Buddhist man who was traveling on a road in Pattani province Monday, said spokesman Col. Parinya Chaidilok.

In neighboring Yala province Sunday, a 48-year-old rubber plantation owner was shot dead in a drive-by shooting as he returned home by motorcycle, Parinya said.

In a separate attack Sunday, a gold shopkeeper was killed after suspect insurgents fired assault rifles into his shop in Narathiwat province before fleeing on a motorcycle, Parinya said.

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