One villager was killed and two others wounded in two separate incidents in Yaha and Muang districts of Yala province on Sunday.
In the first incident, the body of a man, identified as Maruseng Mading, 18, of tambon Lam Mai in Yaha district, was found on Yaha-Ban Niang road early Sunday morning.
Maruseng was shot once in the body. A motorcycle was found lying by his side. He was believed to have been shot by drive-by assailants late on Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
In Muang district, two women were attacked by two men who followed them on a motorcycle with pistols at Ban Kubae Purong in tambon Bannang Sare while travelling on another motorcycle along Yala-Betong road.
Yaowamal Sukhanoen, 50, was hit in the back and her daughter Patchaya, 26, in the right thigh.