Two people were shot dead and a teacher wounded in three separate incidents in the deep South on Sunday.
A man was killed in a gun attack early Sunday morning in Khok Pho district of Pattani province
Police said the incident occurred at about 1am while Tasmi Kabae, 40, of Yarang district, was travelling on a motorcycle on Ban Khok-Ban Prang road.
Tasmi was attacked by an unknown number of people who opened fire at him with a 9mm pistol, hitting him four times in the body. He died at the scene.
Police are investigating whether the attack was carried out by insurgents.
Later in Pattani's Yarang district, a school teacher was shot and wounded while waiting for a bus.
Pol Col Tuandir Juthanant, the Yarang police chief, said the shooting occurred shortly before 1pm.
While Chula Woma, 33, a teacher at Ban Kaen Thao School in tambon Ko Chan of Mayo district, was waiting for a bus to Yala at a bus stop on Pattani-Yala road near Ban Ton Kham in tambon Mo Mawi, two men passed by on a motorcycle. The pillion rider opened fire at him with a .38 pistol.
The teacher was hit four times in the body, a leg and an arm. He was taken to hospital, but there is no word on his condition.
In Songkhla province, a militant was killed in a firefight with a government force early Sunday morning.
The clash occurred after a police unit surrounded a house at a village in tambon Chumpho in Saba Yoi district after receiving information that a number of militants were hiding there.
One of the militants was killed in a 10-minute exchange of fire. He was identified as Mayuding Sama, a native of tambon Sapae in Yaha district of Yala province. Two others in the house escaped.
The police recovered a firearm from the man.
In Narathiwat province, two fake bombs were found and destroyed in Chanae district.
Pol Col Patta Madava, the Chanae police chief, said a police bomb disposal team was despatched to a village in tambon Dusongso after villagers reported the sighting of two objects suspected to be bombs.
The first object, a motorcycle battery in a cardboard box containing some gun powder, was placed at one end of a bridge near Dusongyo village. The other was dumped in a garbage can in front of a PTT petrol station, about 100 metres from the first.
Over 5,000 people have been killed and more than 9,000 hurt in over 11,000 incidents, about 3.5 a day, in Thailand's three southern border provinces and the four districts of Songkhla since violence erupted afresh in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, which monitors the regional violence.