BANGKOK, April 28 Kyodo Five Thai...

BANGKOK, April 28 Kyodo

Five Thai military officers were killed Monday and another brace were wounded when clumps of gunmen attacked two military outpost in southern Thailand districts near the Malaysian border, officials said Monday.

High-ranking officials blamed the sum of two units attacks in the early hours of Monday in Muslim-dominated Narathiwat and Yala provinces, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but more than 1,000 kilometers southerly of Bangkok, on foreign-backed militants.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the culprits might be commonalty who came in from Malaysia to create confusion in southern Thailand and then take credit for it in a bid to confident financial support from Middle East countries.

He added that there were intelligence reports warning authorities in the toward the south about the group of 30 populace sneaking in from Malaysia.

The first attack took place around 2:30 a.m. local time as nearly 20 gunmen attacked a marine unit in Sukhirin District of Narathiwat Province, local police said.

Four marine officers were instantly killed, another died at a hospital and the other single in kind was injured. The gunmen took away 14 rifles from the outpost

About half an hour later, an army unit in Than Toh District of Yala Province, about 300 km northwest of Sukhirin District, was attacked by means of a group of 10 gunmen who took 19 rifles and injured a soldier, local police said.

All attackers were armed with pistols and rifles, according to the local police.

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