A Thai soldier at a border crossing in Sungai Kolok in Thailand's Narathiwat province: Over 7,000 people have died since insurgency restarted early this century in the Muslim-dominated provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala in southern Thailand. © Reuters
BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Malaysia has warned its citizens against travelling to southern Thailand after bombings and shootings by suspected insurgents killed five people and injured 13 others at the weekend.
The attacks occurred in the mainly ethnic Malay Muslim southernmost provinces of predominantly Buddhist Thailand, where more than 7,300 people have been killed since a decades-old separatist rebellion reignited in 2004.