At least 10 suspected insurgents killed and beheaded two elderly men and torched the victims' homes in Thailand's southern province of Pattani Wednesday night, the Thai news Agency reported Thursday.
Police inspected the remains of the two houses, both completely burned to the ground, in Yaring district Thursday morning.
The remains of Noei Sang-ampai, 84 and Jitr Techawanto, 73 were also recovered. They had been killed in their homes and beheaded, before the structures were set on fire.
Meanwhile, two schools in the district were torched and a electric pole was felled, temporarily obstructing traffic on a local road.
The police believed that the attacks were retaliation for recent security operations, in which many suspects have been detained for questioning.
In Narathiwat province, soldiers, patrolling a railway track in Cho Ai Rong district found 20 bolts removed from a section of railway track near a bridge.
Police investigators believed that the attackers hoped to derail a passing train as it crossed a nearby bridge.
State Railway of Thailand was undertaking track repairs.
Pattani and its neighboring provinces of Yala and Narathiwat have been hit by insurgents on an almost daily basis and nearly 2, 400 persons have died in over three years of violence.
Source: Xinhua
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