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NARATHIWAT - SUSPECTED separatist militants shot dead two men including a senior Islamic scholar in separate attacks Tuesday in the insurgency-hit south of Thailand, police said.
A 50-year-old teacher and member of Narathiwat's provincial Islamic committee was killed in a drive-by shooting as he travelled to a religious school in Yala province, local authorities said.
Meanwhile a 46-year-old Muslim man - who police said was a government informant - was shot dead along the Malaysia-Thailand border in Narathiwat as he filled his car with petrol at a service station.
More than 3,000 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension.
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