Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has vowed to root out "a ring of troublemakers" who launched a series of attacks on security outposts in the nation's south that left over 100 people dead.
Gangs of machete-wielding youths, clad in black and wearing headbands stormed 15 police and security bases or checkpoints at dawn in three southern provinces -- Yala, Pattani and Songkhla.
Police and security opened fire on the attackers. The government officials said a total of 107 insurgents were killed in the raids, while three police and two soldiers also lost their lives.
Later Wednesday, security forces using tear gas and rocket propelled grenades stormed a mosque in Kruesei they had surrounded where a gang had holed up, killing around 30 of the attackers,
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