Official, policeman victims in Thai south<\/p>\n
THAILAND: One state official has been killed and a policeman
\nwounded in separate gun attacks in Thailand's Muslim-majority
\nsouth where more than 325 people have died in separatist violence
\nthis year, police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Pattani provincial official Arthit Damkliang, 41, died on the
\nway to hospital on late Saturday after being gunned down outside
\nhis house by two men on a motorcycle, said police.<\/p>\n
Arthit was the first official to be killed by gunmen since the
\nstart of the Muslim holy month of Ramadhan on Oct. 15.<\/p>\n
Earlier that day Police Sergeant Avirut Samanung, 50, was shot
\nsix times by gunmen on a motorcycle in front of hundreds of
\npeople at a market in Narathiwat province, a police spokesman
\nsaid. He remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
A separatist insurgency in the Muslim-majority south has
\ncontinued sporadically for decades and sparked into life again in
\nJanuary with a raid on an army depot. -- AFP<\/p>",
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