BANGKOK: A roadside bomb and gun attack killed two Thai military rangers and wounded four others on Saturday, police said, two days after the country held its first formal peace talks with Muslim rebels.
The paramilitaries were on their way to attend a colleague's funeral in Pattani province when suspected militants detonated the bomb hidden in a motorcycle and launched a gun attack, police said.
On Friday a bomb had killed a soldier and wounded 14 others in neighbouring Narathiwat province.
Several shadowy groups are waging an insurgency in Thailand's southernmost Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia that has claimed more than 5,500 lives over the past nine years.
Thailand's government held a one-day meeting with representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) insurgent group in Malaysia's capital on Thursday.
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