A soldier with an assault rifle takes position outside a Buddhist temple in Narathiwat province. (File photo: AFP)
NARATHIWAT: Three people were killed in a jungle shoot-out between government forces and separatist rebels in this southern border province of Narathiwat, police said Saturday.
Police and soldiers on Friday trekked up a mountain in Narathiwat, where they encountered an armed separatist group that began shooting, according to police.
They started to shoot at us so we had to retaliate, which left three people dead,” local police chief Suthon Sukwiset told AFP, adding they were all Thai Muslims.
“We discovered three M16s in their possession and…
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