WORLD BRIEFING / THAILAND
FROM TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Suspected Muslim rebels killed 10 civilians in a flurry of attacks in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, the army said, on the fifth anniversary of an assault by security forces against militants at a mosque.
In the deadliest incident, at least six gunmen in a pickup truck stormed into a house in Yala province, opening fire on a Muslim family of five, killing four of them, an army spokesman said.
Two Muslim rubber plantation workers were later found dead in the compound of a nearby mosque.
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