[lbo-talk] Two elderly Buddhists killed in Thai Muslim south

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Sun Nov 7 15:38:14 PST 2004


Daily Times

Monday, November 08, 2004

Two elderly Buddhists killed in Thai Muslim south

BANGKOK: Unidentified gunmen shot dead two elderly Buddhist men in Thailand's largely Muslim south hours before a trip to the troubled region by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday, police said.

A 63-year-old store owner in Narathiwat province's Sukirin district was shot six times in the chest, arm, and hip early on Sunday by a gunman posing as a customer, police said. The killer fled on a motorcycle. The victim died on the way to hospital. Late on Saturday, unidentified men sprayed a Chinese Buddhist shrine in nearby Yala province. A Buddhist man, in his sixties, was hit by two bullets and died at the scene, police said.

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