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	Police said the massacre took place in Tambon Bangkhao in Nong Chik district at 7 pm Tuesday.</div>
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	Police went to inspect the scene at 10:30 am Wednesday.</div>
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	Police said ten men travelled in a pick-up truck to the mangrove forest to catch crabs and they were fired at by four men who arrived on two motorcycles.</div>
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	Five of them escaped the shooting by running deeper into the forest and another was still unaccounted for.</div>
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	The assailants dragged the bodies of the four slain villagers to the road and left them there.</div>
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	They were identified as Charan Suksamran, Thammanoon Panyaen, Natthapol Panarat, and Pisal Bangbiew.</div>
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	The Nation</div>
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Four villagers massacred in Pattani

Pattani - Four villagers were massacred in this southern border province apparently by insurgents while they were catching crabs in a mangrove forest Tuesday night police said.