Two Militants Killed By Their Own Bomb In Thai South

NARATHIWAT, Thailand, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Apr, 2017 ) : Two militants were killed in Thailand's violence-plagued deep south after a bomb they were transporting prematurely exploded, the military said Thursday.

Their deaths came during a night of violence across a region plagued by unrest for over a decade as ethnic Malay rebels battle Thai troops for more autonomy from the Buddhist-majority state.

Colonel Yutanam Petchmoang, deputy spokesman of the southern army, said the two militants died while transporting an improvised explosive device in Sabayoi district, Songkhla province.

"They were on a motorbike," he said. "We have in their records that they were local militant sympathisers." The military said insurgents launched a string of gun and grenade attacks across Thailand's so-called Deep South on Wednesday night with 13 separate incidents recorded. No-one was killed in the attacks but five people were lightly injured.