Suspected separatists shot dead a labourer and three teenage boys in a separate attacks in southern Thailand, police reported Saturday said. Thai Buddhist labourer Manoon Saengethong, 42, was shot dead and his body doused with kerosine and set alight Saturday morning in Ruesor district of Narathiwat, said Ruesor Police Major Yongyudh Charoenwanit. "The perpetrators are trying to stir up trouble between Thai Buddhists and Thai Muslims," Yongyudh was quoted as saying by Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA). On Friday night in neighbouring Yala province, gunmen strafed a tea shop in Bannang Sata district, killing three boys all aged 14 and injuring another ten people. Also, Friday night, suspected insurgents burned down five public schools in Songkhla province.
