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Suspected insurgents kill 4 Thai soldiers

03 June 2015 18:17 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Four soldiers were shot dead in Thailand's southernmost province of Yala on Wednesday evening, which was suspected to be perpetrated by insurgents, police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The attack took place at about 5 p.m. local time when the soldiers were driving back from a sports event, local police were quoted by Bangkok Post as saying.

At least three assailants on a truck ambushed the soldiers, firing dozens of bullets at their vehicle and then into their bodies, according to the police.

The soldiers' weapons were missing when their bodies were found on the center of the road.

Yala is part of the country's Deep South which has been plagued with separatist violence since January 2004.

Over the past decade or so, insurgent violence in the Deep South, which also includes provinces of Pattani and Narathiwat as well as several districts of Songkhla province, has left more than 5,900 people dead and 10,600 others injured, figures from the military show.