Thailand
SECURITY forces stormed a suspected rebel hideout in Thailand's restive south yesterday, sparking a gun battle that left a police officer, a soldier and the only person inside the house dead.
About 30 police and soldiers surrounded the house in Yala Province after receiving a tip that the owner was sheltering Muslim insurgents. Police Colonel Sompien Eksomya said shots were fired from the house as police tried to raid it. After the standoff ended, it emerged there was just one man inside, who had been shot dead when he tried to flee.
More than 3,500 people have been killed in Thailand's three southernmost provinces since a Muslim separatist insurgency flared up in 2004. At least 36 people have been killed this month.
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