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Summary A roadside bomb killed 6 and injured one in Thailand's restive deep south of Narathiwat.
Thailands restive deep south on Friday, police said, the latest violent incident in a region plagued for seven years by separatist unrest.The suspected insurgents detonated a bomb buried in a road as a truck carrying six defence volunteers drove to the scene of a shooting at a rubber plantation during the night, in which a Buddhist man was shot dead.Five of the volunteers were killed and the other seriously wounded in Narathiwat, one of three Muslim-dominated provinces bordering Malaysia.Rebels often carry out shootings as a trap to lure security forces into an ambush.Bombs are buried in roads or close to the scene of shootings and detonated as groups of police or soldiers arrive to investigate.More than 4,600 people have been killed in violence since January 2004 in the once independent Malay Muslim region encompassing the Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces, which were annexed by Thailand, then known as Siam, in 1909.
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