Police and militants killed in Thai south

BANGKOK - Gunmen on Sunday attacked a railway station, killing two policemen, and in a separate incident wounded a school teacher in Thailand's largely Muslim south, police said.

One militant was killed in a shootout with police at the railway station in the southern province of Narathiwat, another died later of his injuries and a third, who fled the scene, was shot dead by village militiamen, a police officer told Reuters.

In a separate incident in nearby Yala province, plagued by more than 12 months of violence, gunmen shot and wounded a 44-year old headteacher, another police officer said.

They were the latest incidents of separatist violence in the three southernmost, mainly Muslim, provinces of Thailand where nearly 600 people have been killed since unrest started in January last year.

- REUTERS