BANGKOK, (PNA/Xinhua) — Four police officers were shot dead on Wednesday in restive southern province of Pattani, Channel Three reported.
The four police were on duty, searching for smuggler of diesel and gasoline across Thai-Malaysian border in Pattani.
While they were in Thung Yang Daeng district on Wednesday morning, a group of up to six insurgents on a pick-up truck fired at them with military assault rifles, according to the police
They were all killed at the scene.
Police is investigating and suspected the Muslim militant.
More than 5,000 people have been killed and more than 9,000 injured in over 11,000 incidents, about 3.5 incidents a day, in Thailand’s Muslim, ethnic-Malay dominated three southern border provinces — Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and four districts of Songkhla — since separatist violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, which monitors the regional violence.