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Two soldiers were killed and later beheaded on Friday in an ambush believed to have been carried out by Muslim separatists in southern Thailand. Police said the soldiers were shot dead on their motorcycles as they guarded teachers at a school in Yala, one of the three southern predominantly Muslim provinces at the centre of a long-running insurgency.

“At least 10 gunmen using army weapons ambushed the group, killing two soldiers,” a police official said. “Then they beheaded them and took away their guns and bullet-proof jackets.”

via Thailand: Soldiers killed and beheaded in troubled south – Adnkronos Security.

Related link: Islam in Thailand. Yala Province:

This city has once been one of the most beautiful city in Thailand and popular city for tourism. However, after Islamic movement for separate, it later became to degenerate.

(…) There is a separatist movement in Yala, which after being dormant for many years erupted again in 2004. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all but essential travel in the province.

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