Separatists ambushed a humvee carrying soldiers, killing eight and beheading one of them, in Narathiwat's Chanae district on Monday.
It was the single deadliest attack against the military in the region, following an ambush of a security team in June last year when seven troops were killed.
Police said the separatists also snatched eight rifles from the slain soldiers after a 30minute exchange of gunfire.
Police found the APC upside down and the bodies of eight soldiers riddled with shrapnel and bullets on the road.
One of the slain soldiers had been decapitated. An initial investigation showed that the militants attempted to behead all eight soldiers. They decapitated the commanding officer in the group and left the others with gaping stab wounds to the neck.
Police said the wounded soldiers who survived the blast were shot to make sure that they were dead.
The squad, a security unit for teachers, was ambushed as they patrolled in the district at around 9.40am
In another case, police in the area said they believed six suspected militants who escaped from a jail cell over the weekend used small fishing boats in their getaway.
The six are believed to be members of Runda Kumpalan Kecil, one of several separatist groups operating in the mostly Muslim southernmost provinces of Thailand.
Meanwhile. Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said the latest deadly ambush was not an escalation in the conflict, saying it was instead a routine ambush with an unusually high number of victims.
"Authorities will have to investigate and not allow it to happen again," he said.
In another incident, a roadside bomb hit another convoy of eight soldiers protecting teachers in neighbouring Yala province, local police said. Two of the troops were injured in a subsequent fiveminute gun battle.
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It was the single deadliest attack against the military in the region, following an ambush of a security team in June last year when seven troops were killed.
Police said the separatists also snatched eight rifles from the slain soldiers after a 30minute exchange of gunfire.
Police found the APC upside down and the bodies of eight soldiers riddled with shrapnel and bullets on the road.
One of the slain soldiers had been decapitated. An initial investigation showed that the militants attempted to behead all eight soldiers. They decapitated the commanding officer in the group and left the others with gaping stab wounds to the neck.
Police said the wounded soldiers who survived the blast were shot to make sure that they were dead.
The squad, a security unit for teachers, was ambushed as they patrolled in the district at around 9.40am
In another case, police in the area said they believed six suspected militants who escaped from a jail cell over the weekend used small fishing boats in their getaway.
The six are believed to be members of Runda Kumpalan Kecil, one of several separatist groups operating in the mostly Muslim southernmost provinces of Thailand.
Meanwhile. Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said the latest deadly ambush was not an escalation in the conflict, saying it was instead a routine ambush with an unusually high number of victims.
"Authorities will have to investigate and not allow it to happen again," he said.
In another incident, a roadside bomb hit another convoy of eight soldiers protecting teachers in neighbouring Yala province, local police said. Two of the troops were injured in a subsequent fiveminute gun battle.
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