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3 relatives dead in southern terror attack

Top Pattani official has predicted arrests in relation to the incident will follow swiftly and has blamed it on a local warlord and crime boss who controls the region where the atrocity took place on Saturday.

Three members of a family from Songkhla delivering a consignment of products to Narathiwat in southern Thailand were gunned down and burned to death on Saturday in a terrifying early morning attack by heavily armed gunmen on motorbikes. 

Police at the scene of the atrocity on the main Narathiwat to Pattani road on Saturday after the fire had been quenched. Police forensic teams recovered over 30 spent shell casings from the scene and a local official has predicted there will be early arrests relating to the incident in which three family members were killed by gunmen on motorbikes.

Officials in Pattani province on Saturday were pointing the finger at a local insurgency…

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