NARATHIWAT, Thailand: Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 16 militants dead.
In the unusually brazen attack, one of the most deadly in some eight years of violence in Thailand's deep south, 100 militants attacked the unit in Narathiwat province, unit commander Captain Somkiat Pholprayoon said.
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