she had been grazed by a bullet but not seriously injured.

Authorities believed one of the dead men was involved in the school shootout on Thursday in which four defence volunteers were shot dead.

The four men killed on Thursday were all Muslims and were guarding the school when attackers riding motorcycles opened fire just before lunchtime with students mere metres away.

Pattani provincial police commander Piyawat Chalermsri told AFP on Saturday that he was “confident that [the two slain men] are the same group who carried out the attack on Thursday”.

Authorities have also detained one suspect and are questioning five others.

Unicef Thailand representative Thomas Davin said on Friday that one child in the Bukoh school attack was reportedly injured by debris and some who may have witnessed the attack couldAndrew Liveris, chairman and chief executive officer of Dow Chemical Co., center, speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing with John Hickenlooper, governor of Colorado, left to right, Ross Eisenberg, vice president of energy and resources policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Kenneth Medlock, senior director at the Center for Energy Studies, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. The top two members of a Senate committee for energy split over expanding U.S. natural gas exports, mirroring a disagreement between fuel consumers such as Dow Chemical Co. and producers such as Exxon Mobil Corp. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Andrew Liveris; John Hickenlooper; Ross Eisenberg; Frances Beinecke; Kenneth Medlock less

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