Thailand's Jihadis Continue Their Deadly Ways

A day after trying to kill police investigating the dumping of a Buddhist man alongside a road with a bomb strapped to the dead man's body, the jihadis have killed a family of four, murdered two others as they were driving along, and detonated yet another roadside bomb wounding police and soldiers:

Insurgents killed six people, including two teenaged boys, in separate shootings in Yala on Wednesday.

Police found four bodies — a 56-year-old Muslim rubber tapper and his family: a 21-year-old daughter, and two sons aged 15 and 18 — in a house on a rubber plantation in Yala.

Insurgents also killed a 48-year-old Buddhist man when he was driving a motorcycle in Yala, and a 40-year-old Buddhist man in a drive-by shooting in Pattani.

Also in Yala, one soldier and six patrol police were wounded in two roadside bombs.

The Islamists go after anyone who doesn't quite practice Islam in the fashion them deem fitting (considering them apostates), along with infidels.

This report provides more details:

At least 10 masked gunmen fired into a Muslim village late on Tuesday, killing three men and a woman, police said in Yala, one of the three southern provinces caught up in three years of separatist insurgency in which more than 2,100 people have died.

"They used all sorts of guns, shooting randomly" and the four people were killed in different houses, a police investigator told Reuters by telephone.

The identity of the gunmen was unknown, but police presumed they were separatists, although Muslims accuse government supporters of killings.

On Wednesday, a Buddhist government official was shot dead by a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle while he was heading to work in the city of Yala on his own motorcycle, they said.