A woman was killed, her husband and young son seriously injured in a drive-by shooting in Pattani’s Saiburi district on Friday morning, said Pol Col Arsis Umayee, chief of Saiburi police station.
Korde Leeheng, 40, was driving his Honda sedan heading to Saiburi on Narathiwat-Pattani road together with his wife, Sakina Phitak, and his eight-year-old son when gunmen on another car sprayed bullets at them with AK47 and M16 assault rifles. The attackers then fled.
Mrs Sakina took several bullets in the torso and died instantly in the front passenger seat. Mr Korde and his young son were each hit several times in the body and taken to hospital.
Police blamed separatist militants.