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YALA, THAILAND - AT LEAST four people were killed and nine wounded in a series of bomb and shooting attacks across Thailand's restive, Muslim-majority south, police said ON Tuesday.
A Muslim father and son were killed in a drive-by shooting on Tuesday morning as they returned home from tapping rubber trees in Yala province, near the southern border with Malaysia, they said.
Militants then detonated a roadside bomb aimed at authorities investigating the scene of the killing, wounding four police and five civilians, police said.
A 48-year-old Muslim man was shot dead early on Tuesday when three militants in a pickup opened fire as he was sweeping outside his home in nearby Narathiwat province, they added.
An 80-year-old Muslim man was shot dead in neighbouring Pattani province late Monday as he walked home from prayers at his local mosque.
More than 3,400 people have been killed since separatist unrest erupted in four years ago in Thailand's Muslim-majority south. Tensions in the region have simmered since Thailand annexed the mainly ethnic Malay sultanate in 1902.
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