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YALA (Thailand) - A MUSLIM couple was shot dead after separatist militants stormed into their home in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said on Saturday.
Militants used assault rifles to gun down the 55-year-old man and his 48-year-old wife late Friday in Yala, one of three provinces roiled by a bloody separatist insurgency, they said.
Police said the man was killed because he provided information to authorities about the shadowy insurgency that has battled the government for more than four years.
More than 2,900 people have been killed since the violence broke out along the southern border with Malaysia in a region once an autonomous Malay sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed it a century ago.
Thailand has long insisted the conflict is entirely a domestic issue, but Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej on Friday said foreign militants could be stoking the unrest. -- AFP
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