BANGKOK: Rail services resumed yesterday in Thailand's troubled south after soldiers and police fanned out to protect workers who had gone on strike to protest against attacks on their colleagues, officials said.
But violence persisted in the restive region, home to a low-key separatist insurgency in the 1970s and 1980s, as gunmen killed a state volunteer and severely wounded a police officer and a retired person in three separate incidents, police said.
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