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YALA - Suspected separatists shot dead a three-year-old girl and left her older sister seriously wounded in the latest violence to hit Thailand's insurgent far south, police said Tuesday.
They said an unknown number of gunmen on foot fired shots into the house where the girls were playing on Monday evening in restive Pattani province.
The toddler was shot in the head and died immediately and her six-year-old sister remains in hospital after being shot in the back. No one else was in the house at the time of the incident.
Also Monday, eight soldiers were wounded in two separate attacks, police said.
They said in Pattani's Kapho district two soldiers were hurt in a clash with militants as they tried to arrest them on suspicion of carrying out an arson attack at a local school early Monday. The militants escaped the scene.
Shortly afterwards a roadside bomb explosion wounded six soldiers travelling on three motorcycles patrolling the Bannang Sata district of Yala province.
On Tuesday, a 37-year-old Muslim man was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in the Yarang district of Pattani province as he returned from taking his children to school.
More than 4,000 people have been killed and thousands more wounded since a separatist insurgency erupted in January 2004 in Thailand's southernmost provinces bordering Malaysia.
Tensions have simmered in the mainly Muslim region since it was annexed in 1902 by Buddhist-majority Thailand.
- AFP/ir
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