A bombing and several shootings killed six people and wounded 27 during two days of violence in the insurgency-plagued south of Thailand, police said yesterday.
Five people were shot and more than two dozen injured in a spate of incidents on Saturday that spanned all three provinces in the Muslim-majority south, where an eight-year conflict has claimed thousands of lives.
In Pattani, unknown gunmen killed a policeman, a 74-year-old Buddhist and a security volunteer in separate attacks.
Another shooting in Yala targeted a Buddhist couple on their way to the local market, leaving the wife dead and the husband injured.
A similar incident in Narathiwat saw a couple - both security volunteers on their way to a shooting training session - shot, killing the woman and wounding her husband.
Also in Narathiwat, suspected militants fired two M-79 grenades into a busy local market festival, causing injuries to 23 people, although police said none were thought to be serious.