Suspected Islamic militants kill four in Southern Thailand

The militants attacked a pickup belonging to the TT&T telephone company from a motorcycle, forcing the pickup off the road into an ambush in the Yarang district, Colonel Banpot Punpian said.

"The assailants sprayed the pickup with bullets and then set fire to it, killing three men," he said. One of the TT&T employees managed to escape, he said.

The assailants then set the victims' bodies on fire in the middle of road.

In another news, also in Yarang, unknown assailants shot dead a 61-year-old Buddhist broom salesman Vun Ounjai.