- BANGKOK - Unidentified assailants
set fire to 18 schools and stormed a military camp, killing four soldiers,
in near simultaneous raids in southern Thailand Sunday, an official said.
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- The attacks took place around the Muslim-dominated southern
province of Narathiwat , said military spokesman Lt Gen Phalangun Krahan.
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- He said there were no reports of casualties in the school
fires. But the assailants shot and killed four soldiers when they raided
a military camp in Narathiwat, taking 103 assault rifles.
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- No other details were immediately available about the
attacks, the number of people involved, or their identities. Police were
investigating the raids.
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- Narathiwat is one of the four Muslim-majority provinces
in Thailand , which is predominantly Buddhist.
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- Once a hotbed of a separatist insurgency, the south has
seen an upsurge of attacks.
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