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Muslim couple killed in Thai south: police
Suspected separatist militants shot dead a Muslim couple on Monday in the latest violence to hit Thailand's restive south, say police.
Updated on: Mar 30, 2009, 13:03:58 IST
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Suspected separatist militants shot dead a Muslim couple on Monday in the latest violence to hit Thailand's restive south, police said.
The couple was riding on a motorcycle to a food market in the troubled town of Pattani when they were killed in a drive-by shooting, said police.
More than 3,600 people have been killed and thousands more injured in five years of separatist violence in Thailand's Muslim-majority provinces near the Malaysian border.
Buddist-majority Thailand annexed the ethnic Malay area in 1902, sparking decades of tension.
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