Insurgents seized dozens of weapons in 30 coordinated attacks across southern Thailand on Wednesday night, the military said, according to AP. Four villagers and two insurgents were killed in the attacks in the provinces of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani along the Malaysian border, reported the ITV television station, citing military sources. «Initial reports show that the insurgents ... attacked at about 30 points in three provinces, and took away dozens of guns from the houses of the village chiefs and from the village has contributed to several separatist rebellions in the area over the past century. Earlier Wednesday, police said the southern separatists have adopted the same tactics as insurgents in Iraq and Indonesia, and their violence has caused 450 deaths so far this year, and 668 the year before.
