BANGKOK: A Thai Buddhist student was shot dead yesterday by a suspected Muslim gunman in rising violence in Thailand's troubled south, police said.
The unidentified gunman, riding pillion on a motorcycle, pumped three bullets into the head of the 23-year-old university student in Pattani, police told reporters. The victim, also on a motorcycle at the time, was dead on arrival at hospital.
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