A local official was killed and another villager seriously wounded in separate drive-by shootings in Pattani province on Saturday morning, reports said.
The first attack occurred in Thung Yangdaeng district's tambon Talohmaena where Sofee Yapa, 46, deputy chairman of tambon Talohmaena Administration Organisation was shot dead.
Witnesses told police that Sofee was travelling on his motorcycle on the local road at Ban Khok Mude when a gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle fired on him with a handgun. The assailants then fled.
Sofee took bullets in his face and left shoulder. He was taken to Thung Yangdaeng hospital and later pronounced dead.
Police blamed separatist militants.
The second shooting took place on the rural road at Ban Yukong, tambon Kaso of Mayo district.
Suemadee Bueraheng, 31, was travelling on his motorcycle on the local road when he was shot with a handgun by a gunman on another motorcycle, who fled after the attack, said Pol Col Kongath Suwankham, chief of Mayo police station.
Suemadee was seriously injured, taking several bullets in his torso and taken to Mayo hospital.
Police were investigating.
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