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Two children, father killed in restive Thai south: police

AFP - Wednesday, August 13

NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) - - Suspected separatist rebels opened fire on a family on Tuesday killing two young children and their father in the Muslim-majority south of Thailand, police said.

The father, a 53-year-old fruit seller, was driving with his wife and two children in Narathiwat province when a gang believed to be militants attacked his pick-up truck, police in the region said.

The father and daughter died at the scene, while the wife and five-year-old son were badly wounded. The boy later died in hospital, medical staff said.

Later Tuesday in the same province, two security guards were slightly injured when a bomb exploded near a roadside shop.

More than 3,300 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay sultanate until Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension.

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