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Bomb in Thai south kills senior government official

By REUTERS

APRIL 5, 2013 13:58

BANGKOK - Suspected Muslim rebels in southern Thailand killed a deputy provincial governor and another state official with a roadside bomb on Friday, a week after the government held first formal talks with a rebel group to try to end years of violence.

At least 29 people have died in the three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since February 28 when the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) rebels agreed to hold talks. More than 5,300 people have died since January 2004.

Isra Thongthawat, deputy governor of Yala province, was traveling in a car with his Muslim driver, Stopa Jehloh, and Chavalit Chairuek, a provincial disaster management official, when the bomb went off. Chavalit died on the spot, police said.

Isra died later in hospital, becoming the most senior civilian official to be killed in the three provinces since the Muslim insurgency resurfaced in the south of Buddhist-majority Thailand in 2004 after simmering for decades.

Doctors at a hospital in Yala province said Stopa was in a critical condition.

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