17 gunmen dead in Thai military base attack: Army
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Thai police stand guard during a suspected insurgents attack at a military base in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Security personnel investigate around bodies of insurgents at the site of an attack on an army base in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Thai police inspect belongings from dead suspected insurgents who were killed when they attacked a military base in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Police officers watch belongings of a group of insurgents who were killed during an attack at a military base in southern province of Narathiwat, on Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AP
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Thai police officers inspect the dead body of one of the suspected insurgents who were killed when they attacked a military base in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Security personnel investigate around bodies of insurgents at the site of an attack on an army base in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Thai police stand guard during a suspected insurgents attack at a military base in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AFP
Security personnel investigate around bodies of insurgents at the site of an attack on an army base in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Thai police inspect belongings from dead suspected insurgents who were killed when they attacked a military base in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AFP
Police officers watch belongings of a group of insurgents who were killed during an attack at a military base in southern province of Narathiwat, on Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AP
Thai police officers inspect the dead body of one of the suspected insurgents who were killed when they attacked a military base in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: AFP
Security personnel investigate around bodies of insurgents at the site of an attack on an army base in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat, on Feb 13, 2013. Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
BANGKOK (AFP) - Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead.
"Some 100 fully armed militants stormed the base, where there were 60 marines," Colonel Pramote Promin, southern army spokesman, told AFP.
He said the attack, one of the most ambitious in several years of violence in Thailand's three southernmost provinces, had left at least 17 assailants dead. No military casualties were reported.
