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Two Buddhists killed

BANGKOK: Two men were killed on Wednesday by suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand who apparently targeted the victims because they were Buddhist, police said. The first victim was identified as a 55-year-old rubber tapper, who was shot three times while driving his motorcycle by a gunman on the back of another motor bike, said police Maj. Suthas Noosrikong of Lammai police station in Yala province, where the attack occurred. Fifteen minutes later, a gunman drove on a motorcycle to the home of a Buddhist man in the same village. The attacker entered the home and fired three times, killing the man, aged 69. ``We believe that Muslim insurgents are responsible for the death of the two Buddhist men,'' Maj. Suthas said. — AP

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