A villager was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani’s Nong Chick district on Wednesday night, police said.
Pol Maj Gen Ekapop Prasitwattanachai, chief of Pattani police, said Abdulmama Abu, 50, was traveling home on a motorcycle along a rural road at Ban Don Yang, tambon Bang Khao of Nong Chick, when a gunman riding pillion on another bike fired on him with handgun.
Abdulmama took three bullets in his body and died before arriving at Nong Chick hospital.
Police were investigating.