August 15, 2007	Wednesday	Sha’aban 1, 1428

NARATHIWAT (Thailand): A bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed one person and wounded six others on Tuesday in further separatist violence in the south of Thailand, police said, while four men were shot dead.

The bomb exploded outside a grocery store in Narathiwat, one of three Muslim-majority provinces hit by the separatist bloodshed which has killed 2,400 people since January 2004.

The shop owner was killed, while two policemen and four passers-by were injured, local officials said.

Elsewhere in Narathiwat, a 26-year-old Muslim man was shot dead at his home. Police said that the man was a former separatist militant, who was likely killed to stop him from naming other rebels.

In other unrest on Tuesday, a former soldier was killed in a drive-by shooting by suspected insurgents in Pattani province, police said, while two Muslim men were killed in similar attacks in Yala and Narathiwat.—AFP