BANGKOK, April 7 Kyodo Thai Prime...

BANGKOK, April 7 Kyodo

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will fare to Malaysia on April 12 to court cooperation in capturing bombers and assailants involved in the novel violence in southern Thailand, the Thai Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Thaksin had earlier said he would travel to Malaysia on Friday yet changed the schedule at Malaysia's request

He will discuss with his counterpart Abdullah Ahmad Badawi security cooperation along the border and also take up the issue of dual citizenship, which he said allows attackers to easily escape across the border after committing their crimes.

Thaksin earlier claimed that suspects who bombed a tourist town in southern province Narathiwat in succession March 27, which left 29 the public including Malaysian tourists, grieve fled to Malaysia.

He also claimed that a villages on the Malaysia border have become hiding places for terrorists who created the newly come unrest in southern Thailand.

Attacks in southern Thailand have continued since a arrange of assailants raided an army arsenal in Narathiwat forward Jan. 4, killing four soldiers, stealing more than 300 fire-arms and setting 20 schools forward fire.

The Thai restraint declared martial law a day later in the three Muslim-majority provinces Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.

to such a degree far, some 60 people, chiefly policemen, soldiers and restraint officials, have been killed in almost daily attacks.

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