A motorcycle taxi rides through a barricade by anti-government protesters on Rama IV road in downtown Bangkok February 6, 2014. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim rebels in southern Thailand killed four people, including a nine-year-old boy, on Thursday, police said, adding the attack may have been in reprisal for the killing of some Muslim boys.
Thailand is a mainly Buddhist country, but the three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat are majority-Muslim and resistance to central government rule has existed there for decades, resurfacing violently in 2004.
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