Five workers killed in Thailand's Muslim south

PATTANI, Thailand, April 24 (Reuters) - Suspected militants in Thailand's Muslim-dominated south killed five Buddhist construction workers and wounded another in a roadside ambush on Thursday, police said.

The attackers armed with automatic rifles fired on a pick-up truck carrying the workers to an Islamic school construction site in the province of Pattani, police said.

Pattani is one of three southern provinces where nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a four-year-old separatist insurgency, police said.

No groups have claimed responsibility for the daily gun or bomb attacks in the far south, a Malay-speaking Muslim sultanate annexed by predominately Buddhist Thailand a century ago. (Reporting by Surapan Boonthanom; Editing by Vithoon Amorn and Sanjeev Miglani)

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