Soldier, insurgent killed in Thai south unrest

More than 30 troops came under attack during a raid on a militant hideout early in the morning in Narathiwat. A suspected rebel was killed and several others wounded during the 20-minute gun battle that followed, police said.

Narathiwat is one of three mainly Muslim Thai provinces abutting the Malaysian border, where more than 3,900 people have been killed in six years of bloody unrest.

In another attack in the same province, one soldier was killed and another seriously wounded when insurgents opened fire on them from a moving pickup truck.

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