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Hanoi (VNA) – At least 15 people died and four others were wounded as suspected separatist insurgents stormed a security checkpoint in the southern province of Yala, Thailand on November 5 night, according to the Reuters.
This was one of the biggest attacks in recent times, a local security official was quoted as saying. The attackers also used explosives and scattered nails on roads to deter pursuit.
A decade-old separatist insurgency in predominantly Buddhist Thailand’s largely ethnic Malay-Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat has killed nearly 7,000 people since 2004, according to the Reuters. Victims of the attacks were mainly police officers, teachers and governmental officials./.
VNA