A 56-year-old man was gunned down while driving a motorcycle in Narathiwat, one of three restive provinces bordering Malaysia, police said, adding that another 60-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in the province.

More than 2,800 people have been killed since unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension. -- AFP