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Security in the southern province of Yala was tightened on Sunday after alleged insurgents began hanging banners and defacing roads in some areas demanding the independence of “Patani state”.

Two policemen were injured in a bomb attack in Yala on Wednesday morning, hours after a defence volunteer was shot dead in Narathiwat, police said.

A soldier and an officer who were providing security to teachers in the deep South were killed in two separate bomb blasts this morning (August 13).

An Army officer was killed in a bomb blast in Pattani province this morning (July 14), leading provincial chief of the special task force Maj-General Piyapong Wongchan to issue orders blocking roads and passages in the vicinity to prevent another incident.

Surveillance cameras have given investigators some clues about the bombers responsible for an explosion in the Saba Yoi district of Songkhla province.

A bomb detonated on a stationary train in Narathiwat early Wednesday morning (November 27), but no one was injured.

Insurgents set off homemade bombs and carried out arson attacks at six locations in five districts of Yala on Tuesday night, injuring nine local people, police said.

The authorities have issued arrest warrants for 21 suspected insurgents involved in the fatal attack against a security checkpoint in Pattani last month and have arrested five of them, they announced on Monday.

Two men suspected of involvement in the Bangkok bombing spree earlier this month have been transferred to the capital after they were detained by police in the South.

The southern Army chief has dispatched 10,000 troops in 735 units to monitor 188 villages in border provinces where insurgents are hiding following a resurgence of violent incidents in the deep South.

The Army Area 4 vowed on Wednesday to hunt down the insurgents who attacked a security checkpoint in Pattani resulting in four deaths.